JWK support for EC keys allowing keys for new curves to only "x" from Mike Jones on 2014-10-18 (public-webcrypto@w3.org from October 2014)

From: Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 01:51:19 +0000
To: "public-webcrypto@w3.org" <public-webcrypto@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4E1F6AAD24975D4BA5B16804296739439BB17BEA@TK5EX14MBXC286.redmond.corp.microsoft.>

As a result of IETF Applications Area Directorate review feedback on the JWA draft, the JWK elliptic curve language has been generalized to allow new curves to be registered that represent their keys using only an "x" value, rather than always requiring "x" and "y" values.  See http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-algorithms-35#section-6.2.1 and 6.2.1.1.

I'm calling this out to WebCrypto because I believe this opens the door for new curves for WebCrypto to have the same flexibility.

I thought you'd want to know...

                                                                -- Mike

Received on Saturday, 18 October 2014 01:52:26 UTC