Cryptographic APIs in Browsers from Anders Rundgren on 2011-09-16 (public-identity@w3.org from September 2011)

From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren@telia.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:12:42 +0200
To: "public-identity@w3.org" <public-identity@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4E73757A.6060504@telia.com>

I believe cryptographic APIs in browsers could be nice although I'm not
sure of the actual use-case.

Anyway, if the cryptographic API also communicates with keys stored in
the native client platform (in contrast to "web storage"), you should
be aware of what you may get into.  See page #2 in:

http://webpki.org/papers/keygen2/sks-keygen2-exec-level-presentation.pdf

Anders

Received on Friday, 16 September 2011 16:13:12 UTC