Re: comments on web crypto API: General comments on the document [6/6]

On 2013-05-23 18:57, Ryan Sleevi wrote:

> This matches the existing APIs and cryptographic libraries in use by
> browsers - which was a key use case in the chartering of this group
> and design of this API - in that all parameters must be specified up
> front so that an implementation can accurately represent whether an
> operation is supported.
> Implementations built on PKCS#11, for example (which include both
> Firefox and Chromium) are not able to change IV midstream.

I do not think that a new API designed in 2013 should contain the same 
issues and limitations as another API designed in 1995. Otherwise, why 
not just standardize the PKCS #11 API in javascript?

regards,
Nikos

Received on Friday, 24 May 2013 13:56:26 UTC