Hi David,

What is your concern here with regard to the private browsing mode?  It's
not immediately obvious to me why and how this API should interact with the
PB mode.

Thanks!
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:09 AM, David Dahl <dd...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> [I have cross posted this message to dev-platform and dev-tech-crypto,
> perhaps we should discuss this on dev-platform as it has a larger
> subscriber base?].
>
> I am just putting together a draft feature page for an internal API needed
> by the eventual DOM bindings for DOMCrypt (see:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Features/DOMCryptAPISpec/Latest and
> http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/ ). I would like for this API to not
> only support the eventual Web Crypto API, but also to allow extension
> developers to have a useful, high-level API to work with. This seems to be
> quite in demand based on the number of companies and developers who have
> contacted me about hacking on my fork of WeaveCrypto ( in the DOMCrypt
> Extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/domcrypt/ .)
>
> Mozilla developers will also be able to take advantage of this internal
> API to more easily create browser features and/or extensions in the
> security and privacy space. I would also like to produce a Jetpack wrapper.
>
> The existing spec for DOMCrypt will no doubt change very soon as the Web
> Crypto Working Group is ramping up and based on discussions with bent and
> khuey, we need to move to an event-driven interface. The Internal API
> described on this feature page:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/DOMCryptInternalAPI should be able to handle
> that, however, some wider discussion and feedback will really be
> appreciated, especially with all of the changes in line for our DOM
> bindings. The initial work for this internal API is in bug 649154.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
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