Re: Open Source WebCrypto browser plugin

On Jul 15, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:

> On 07/15/2013 09:47 PM, Mark Watson wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> We just published this: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/07/nfwebcrypto-web-cryptography-api-native.html
>> 
>> ...Mark
>> 
> Giant +1
> 
> Time to get to the test suite now that we have this and Polycrypt!

<applause/>

We should be able to do some interop testing between this and PolyCrypt.  I think we support mostly the same set of algorithms.  (But PolyCrypt also has GCM!)

FWIW, we're slowly working on a similar thing for Firefox ("FoxyCrypt").  One major difference with our approach: Rather than bringing along an additional crypto library (openssl), we're actually bridging NSS up to JS.  An initial version here:
<•https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxycrypt/>

--Richard

Received on Monday, 15 July 2013 23:04:49 UTC