Re: U2F and keygen

On 22 Jul 2014, at 09:44, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:

> <keygen> was designed 1995, how could it possibly meet todays requirement?
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> As far as I can tell (reading the source...), Mozilla have introduced several
> non-standard enhancements, including support for Elliptic Curves.
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> Anyway, <keygen> doesn't support PIN-codes which is why no bank would ever
> consider using <keygen>.
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> Adding PINs to the spec may sound trivial but I can assure you that it is not,
> it would (IMO) require a complete redesign!

That's fine. The forum to discuss that would be the HTML5 group. We here are not
in a position to improve <keygen> here.


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Received on Tuesday, 22 July 2014 10:12:23 UTC