Fwd: [Widgets] Opera's position on Elliptic Curve and x509v3

Frederick - re the XML Signature algorithms vis-à-vis the Widgets 1.0  
Digital Signature spec [1], below are comments on Elliptic Curve from  
WebApps WG member Opera.

-Regards, Art Barstow

[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-digsig-20090331/>

Begin forwarded message:

> From: ext Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
> Date: March 4, 2009 6:24:50 AM EST
> To: "Hirsch Frederick (Nokia-CIC/Boston)"  
> <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com>, public-webapps <public- 
> webapps@w3.org>, "ext Priestley, Mark, VF-Group"  
> <Mark.Priestley@vodafone.com>
> Cc: Arve Bersvendsen <arveb@opera.com>
> Subject: [Widgets] Opera's position on Elliptic Curve and x509v3
> Reply-To: "marcosc@opera.com" <marcosc@opera.com>
> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/ 
> b21a10670903040324g6a6c3587pb14c5ebf965e5e13@mail.gmail.com>
>
> At the F2F, I agreed to ascertain Opera's position on adding elliptic
> curve support and restricting x509 to version 3.
>
> Wrt Eliptic Curve, Opera would prefer _not_ to have elliptic curve
> support for version 1 of Widgets Dig Sig, but would possibly like to
> see its inclusion in future version of the spec.
>
> Wrt restricting to x509 to version 3, we are ok with this.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marcos
>
> -- 
> Marcos Caceres
> http://datadriven.com.au
>

Received on Tuesday, 7 April 2009 21:01:17 UTC