Bug 23159 - Inconsistent "length" property when generating keys (bits vs bytes) from Mark Watson on 2014-03-03 (public-webcrypto@w3.org from March 2014)

From: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 13:12:17 -0800
To: "public-webcrypto@w3.org" <public-webcrypto@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAEnTvdAWvfoU_AcH9SvuCyD1pd7HCoEcAODubmU9+vFSSz0uKQ@mail.gmail.com>

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23159

The length property of an algorithm is everywhere specified as the length
in BITS, except HMAC which defines it as the length in BYTES.

The proposal is to align on BITS.

Any objections ?

...Mark

Received on Monday, 3 March 2014 21:12:45 UTC