On May 16, 2014 7:20 PM, "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com> wrote: > > WebApps was asked to review the Last Call Working Draft of the Web Crypto > > API: > > > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-WebCryptoAPI-20140325/> > > > > Individual WG members are encouraged to provide individual feedback. > > I don't really have the crypto chops to do anything more than a > superficial review here, so just a couple of pieces of feedback: > > Should Key be a dictionary rather than an interface? No. There is a hidden opaque handle for the cryptosystem that is represented by the Key object, that is a Platform object that can't be polyfilled. The TAG review on github digs into this much deeper. > > Same question for KeyAlgorithm and anything that derives from it. It > looks like these interfaces just provides a bunch of properties. > Unless it also stores internal data (?) it looks like this would be > better done as a dictionary. This was raised during TAG and is being corrected. It will be an object type, converted from Dictionaries of the same (existing) types. The dictionaries serve as spec shorthand. > > The fact that KeyAlgorithm is a [NoInterfaceObject] further indicates this. > > / Jonas >
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