Use-case Clarifications Required

Dear All,

Although it is very inspiring to see the volume of messages on the public-webcrypto@w3.org mailing-list, I think some of this also reflects the lack of work with the actual use-cases.

After the FPWD I urge the people that are interested in use-cases to outline how *they* interpret that the specification supports a particular use-case.
I'm probably stupid, but I don't understand how the current (2012-08-19) draft could eliminate custom plugins of the kind used in Korea and Sweden.

To do that you (IMO) must define what current plugins do, and how you by using JS/HTML5 code and WebCrypto could emulate that functionality.

Some of the use-cases are also essentially undocumented like SSL VPN.

Use-cases should describe 1) what's currently missing 2) desired/proposed new functionality.

Use-cases should also be upgraded to reflect the current specification.

I know that this has not been done with for example XML Dsig but XML Dsig is just a format.

I'm prepared taking on the plugin use-case in case nobody else does.

Thanx,
Anders

Received on Thursday, 30 August 2012 12:14:10 UTC