[Bug 25387] BigInteger

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25387

--- Comment #6 from Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com> ---
(In reply to Anne from comment #5)
> The main problem I think is that you want a bigint, and are inventing one on
> top of a Uint8Array. Ideally there would at least be some coordination with
> TC39 so that they know this is going on.

This isn't really accurate, for the reasons explained on
https://github.com/w3ctag/spec-reviews/issues/3#issuecomment-41630590

This WG has spent a lot of time debating BigInteger - whether it's a first
class type or not. You can see in the archives a previous proposal by Microsoft
during the eBay/PayPal F2F that demonstrated a number of problems with trying
to describe BigInteger for cryptographic operations.

As explained during the W3C TAG review, the typedef here is to annotate a
binary format (akin to the ASN.1 DER-encoding of SPKI/PKCS#8)

If you're performing cryptographic operations using these, then we've failed as
a WG.

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