[Bug 25619] Provide (non-normative) explanations for terminology like cryptographic provider

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25619

Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
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         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #2 from Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org> ---
It seems cryptographic provider has been defined adequately in the spec now:
"an abstraction for a specific implementation of a set of algorithms. The
operating system or library may come with a default provider, and users are
frequently allowed to add additional providers, reconfigure the set of enabled
algorithms, or otherwise customize how cryptographic services are provided.
While it is assumed that most user agents will be interacting with a
cryptographic provider that is implemented purely in software, it is not
required by this specification. As a result, the capabilities of some
implementations may be limited by the capabilities of the underlying hardware,
and, depending on how the user has configured the underlying cryptographic
library, this may be entirely opaque to the User Agent."

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Received on Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:25:50 UTC