- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:40:48 +0000 (UTC)
Over the years, several people (most of them bcc'ed) have asked for HTML5 to include a definition of <keygen>. Some have even gone as far as finding documentation on the element -- thank you. As I understand it based on the documentation, <keygen> basically generates a public/private asymmetric cryptographic key pair, and then sends the public component as its form value. Unfortunately, this seems completely and utterly useless, as at no point does there seem to be any way to ever use the private component either for signing or for decrypting anything, nor does there appear to be a way to use the certificate for authentication. Without further information along these lines describing how to actually make practical use of the element, I do not intend to document <keygen> in the HTML5 specification. If anyone can fill in these holes that would be very helpful. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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