Re: Charter and the NetFlix UC

On 2012-02-17 20:35, Ron Garret wrote:
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> On Feb 17, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
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>> On 2012-02-17 20:00, Ron Garret wrote:
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>> <snip>
>>> It is possible that the solution to all our problems is simply to document signText.
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>> I just mentioned that there are a bunch of "standards" out there already.
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> And what does the existence of "a bunch of standards" have to do with what is wrong with signText?
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>> If I were to create a standard I would begin with researching these to see
>> if there is something worth stealing :-)
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> So, did you?  Is there?

It's called gap analysis and is a given task for a *proposer*.


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>> https://github.com/daviddahl/domcrypt/blob/master/demos/demo.js#L47
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> All I see is a bunch of uncommented Javascript code.  How that is intended to address the issue that signText is undocumented I do not understand.  I might be able to back out an API by reverse-engineering this code, but that would be missing the point rather badly.
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>> I don't know how window.mozCipher.pk.sign works but signText(v1996) uses X.509
>> certificates which I believe what is generally requested.
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> Personally, I think X.509 is part of the problem, not the solution.  But that is a different issue altogether.

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> rg
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Received on Friday, 17 February 2012 19:51:29 UTC