Re: [web security] Workshop on Web Applications and Secure Hardware

On 2013-06-20 12:55, GALINDO Virginie wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is to inform you that today is held a conference which title may be of interest for you : Workshop on Web Applications and Secure Hardware. 
> 
> Some of the papers discussed are already available. Key words related to them are webapps, TPM, TEE, smart card, webcrypto, FIDO, ...
> Program http://wash2013.wordpress.com/programme/
> Proceedings http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/john.lyle/wash13/preproceedings.pdf

Thanx for this update!

>From one of the papers I read:

"Key discovery as currently conceived by the WebCrypto Key Discovery draft
 isn’t useful for discovering keys that reside on users’ smart cards."


This is true and represents a major hurdle for wide-spread usage of WebCrypto.
In fact, WebCrypto "disintegrates" the cryptographic subsystems which is about
the opposite to what you want.

Anders

> 
> Regards,
> Virginie
> gemalto
> 

Received on Thursday, 20 June 2013 12:04:32 UTC