Re: [W3C Web Crypto WG] Rechartering discussion

Yeah, to be clear, I am interested in possibilities for exposing secure
hardware in a way that makes sense for the web.  But (1) everything I've
seen indicates to me that that is not a task for this WG, and (2) I haven't
seen a proposal that's suitable to be the basis for a WG.

--Richard

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:

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>
> On 02/20/2015 11:09 PM, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Israel Hilerio <israelh@microsoft.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Virginie,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Our apologies for being late to the party.  Microsoft’s opinion
> regarding
> >>> the re-charting of the WebCrypto WG is to focus on the following items:
> >>>
> >>> * New algorithms
> >>>
> >>> * Extending the APIs to support Streams when the Streams spec is
> updated
> >>> by the W3C
> >>
> >>
> >> +1 from the Mozilla side.
> >>
> >> To the extent that there is any more work to be done, it is in
> specifying
> >> any further algorithms that are necessary.  I would caveat, though,
> that we
> >> should not take on any deliverables on non-NIST elliptic curves before
> the
> >> CFRG process closes.  While they are quite a bit behind schedule, they
> >> appear to be closing in on a solution.
> >>
> >> I'm don't have an urgent need for Streams support, but wouldn't object
> to
> >> adding the scope.
> >>
> >> --Richard
> >
> > While it should hopefully come as no surprise and not need saying,
> > this is exactly our position as well, so a +1 to that :)
>
> Congrats for the consensus from all the major browser vendors! That was
> painless :)
>
> It appears the many other items that were brought up may still have
> quite a lot of interest from members, but we at W3C are also open to
> looking at other existing WGs or creating new Working Groups. We'll be
> back in touch with next steps for that early next week.
> >
>