Spec unclear about ECC (was Re: PolyCrypt ) from Ryan Sleevi on 2013-01-29 (public-webcrypto-comments@w3.org from January 2013)

From: Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:31:14 -0800
To: Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com>
Cc: Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com>, public-webcrypto-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <CACvaWvaf5+SnR0=FrTVDC15cbXsahwKa1CRNkO7Q9AjFMWfOAw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 29, 2013, at 5:42 AM, Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is it foreseen to implement RSA OAEP and Diffie Hellman, or does it exist somewhere ?
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> I'm trying not to write new crypto code for PolyCrypt (I made an exception for GCM).  Do you know of JS libraries for OAEP/DH?  I was thinking some about doing ECDH with jsbn, but had postponed that because the spec didn't seem  entirely clear on that point yet.

Part of the goal of waiting for implementations was getting feedback
on the spec.

Can you please provide feedback about what you feel is unclear?

Received on Tuesday, 29 January 2013 20:31:42 UTC