Re: Scope of key discovery draft

On Dec 10, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Acar, Tolga wrote:

> Thanks, Mark. I have another use case of named origin-specific keys.
> 
> The only difference, as the name above suggests, is that these keys are not pre-provisioned; they are created on-demand for later use. This is similar to native crypto API behavior. A key is created and stored if it doesn't exist, and is retrieved if it is already there.

What aspect of your use-case is not covered by storing the Key object in IndexedDB ?

…Mark

> 
> - Tolga
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Watson [mailto:watsonm@netflix.com]
>> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 1:43 PM
>> To: public-webcrypto@w3.org Group
>> Subject: Scope of key discovery draft
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> On the call, I presented the key discovery draft as containing only the
>> material on "named origin-specific pre-provisioned keys", but it could be
>> extended, if there was support, to other kinds of key discovery.
>> 
>> Ryan voiced the opinion that the scope of the document should be restricted
>> to just this case and that other cases should be addressed in other
>> documents.
>> 
>> I would like to know if there are any other opinions ?
>> 
>> If not, does anyone have a good suggestion for a shorter name ?
>> "WebCrypto: Discovery of named origin-specific pre-provisioned keys" is a bit
>> of a mouthful.
>> 
>> ...Mark
> 

Received on Monday, 10 December 2012 22:32:07 UTC