Banking. Re: Review of Use Cases

Pardon me for bringing up the banking use-case again but I don't think WebCrypto in
its current shape will get much interest from banks.   They are picky about things like
key protection and that is essentially undefined.

Google's Gnubby seems like a much stronger candidate for bank applications:
https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/gnubby

If banks want to use public key cryptography they can actually do that using the
existing PKI support in browsers.  Few do and rather build their own client software
more or less from scratch.

This reminds me of the conceptually brilliant but failed Information Card scheme which
Microsoft tried to launch on top of a platform which was (and to my knowledge still is)
unsuited for large-scale deployment of public-key based authentication systems.

Anders

Received on Tuesday, 16 July 2013 04:58:29 UTC