Smart card support: was: Feedback, comments and so about WG Web Cryptography API from Anders Rundgren on 2012-07-23 (public-webcrypto-comments@w3.org from July 2012)

From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren@telia.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:24:13 +0200
To: Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com>
CC: helpcrypto helpcrypto <helpcrypto@gmail.com>, public-webcrypto-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <500D0A2D.9000504@telia.com>

On 2012-07-23 09:38, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
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>  This API does not seek to define a smart card provisioning API, which have historically been what those APIs have been used for.
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Exactly.  Anything of this kind[*] is so infected with IPR and business issues that it will [continue to] be provided as proprietary solutions like the already shipping NDA-protected Google Wallet.

Anders

*] embedded or external security hardware.

Received on Monday, 23 July 2012 08:24:54 UTC