- From: David Dahl <ddahl@mozilla.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:29:04 -0800 (PST)
- To: Brian Smith <bsmith@mozilla.com>
- Cc: public-identity@w3.org, Andrew Sutherland <asutherland@asutherland.org>
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Smith" <bsmith@mozilla.com> > To: "David Dahl" <ddahl@mozilla.com> > Cc: public-identity@w3.org, "Andrew Sutherland" <asutherland@asutherland.org> > Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 12:00:23 PM > Subject: Re: Last call for Use-cases/Goals for web crypto charter > David Dahl wrote: > > 2. LocalStorage encryption > > Please be more specific here. Could a browser satisfy this use case by > just encrypting LocalStorage all the time, automatically? Or are you > expecting that the encryption key would be shared with the server > (i.e. the opposite of the "encrypt file before sending to the server" > use case)? Yes, perhaps the encryption 'key id' is shared with the server. Encrypting LocalStorage all of the time seems like a waste of cycles as most localStorage data is probably OK as plain text. Cheers, David
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