Key Discovery for the Korean/Swedish/Belgian/etc use-case

It seems that the WG finally have acknowledged that the Web Crypto API
cannot support traditional PKI applications without touching things
that are outside of the API:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webcrypto/2013Mar/0064.html

  "The Key Discovery draft specifically addresses 'named, origin-specific pre-provisioned keys'.
   I would guess that the smart cards and USB tokens that you wish to use already exist and do
   not already have the necessary metadata to fall into that category"

Since putting additional requirements on the Web Crypto underpinnings is out of scope,
the only logical conclusion is that the entire use-case is out of scope.  Postponing
this discussion to TPAC in China in November won't change anything.

Anders

Received on Thursday, 7 March 2013 07:31:48 UTC