Re: Strawman proposal for the low-level API from Wan-Teh Chang on 2012-06-22 (public-webcrypto@w3.org from June 2012)

From: Wan-Teh Chang <wtc@google.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:48:33 -0700
To: Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com>
Cc: David Dahl <ddahl@mozilla.com>, public-webcrypto@w3.org
Message-ID: <CALTJjxGoFG6vnF9pmr=2uQYfy4TJV=V9C3aU8JrQk7=wX3uHHw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com> wrote:
>
> Note that I didn't spec Verify+Recovery, since I'm still mulling that one
> over, but if implemented, I would imagine verifyRecover would presumably
> have the recovered PT (rather than the original signature) in .result.

I suggest that we exclude Verify+Recovery from the API.
Verify+Recovery seems specific to RSA signatures, which work by
encrypting a hash.

Wan-Teh

Received on Friday, 22 June 2012 22:49:04 UTC