Re: Mozilla (indirectly) slashes WebCrypto Security

2017-02-05 Thread Anders Rundgren
On Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 8:36:57 AM UTC+1, Anders Rundgren wrote: > Feel free calling me a troll, but there is a rationale behind my ramblings on > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065729 > > The bug is named "Implement the FIDO Alliance u2f javascript API&q

Re: Is there a reason for scrapping native.js?

2017-01-29 Thread Anders Rundgren
On Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 1:55:50 AM UTC+1, Sergey Rozhenko wrote: > So far I haven't been able to find any piece of rationale behind > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199718 getting WONTFIXed. And > that's weird, because there has to be an enormous reason to justify its > scr

Mozilla (indirectly) slashes WebCrypto Security

2017-01-28 Thread Anders Rundgren
Feel free calling me a troll, but there is a rationale behind my ramblings on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065729 The bug is named "Implement the FIDO Alliance u2f javascript API". The spec is here: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/ "In one extreme case, the authenticator may b

Re: Intent to implement: Payment Request API

2017-01-05 Thread Anders Rundgren
An external security review has been requested. Here is my take on the matter: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-security/2017Jan/0004.html Anders ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listi

Re: Intent to implement: Web2Native Bridge

2016-12-09 Thread Anders Rundgren
The Web2Native Bridge emulator now runs flawlessly on the "desktop" version of Firefox! I'm still awaiting publishing by Mozilla AddOn team. You may install temporary right now though: https://github.com/cyberphone/web2native-bridge/tree/master/firefox/extension Installation of the host app: ht

Re: Intent to implement and ship: Web Authentication

2016-12-02 Thread Anders Rundgren
[2] https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/#android-key-attestation > [3] https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/#android-safetynet-attestation > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Anders Rundgren < > anders.rundgren@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 5:42:

Re: Intent to implement: Web2Native Bridge

2016-12-01 Thread Anders Rundgren
On Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 9:51:36 PM UTC+1, Nicholas Alexander wrote: Hi Nicholas, I want to avoid a long (and for other people boring) debate, but I feel that I must at least *try* to describe what this is all about... I would recommend a peek in this document which describes the ratio

Re: Intent to implement: Web2Native Bridge

2016-11-30 Thread Anders Rundgren
I believe both the Android Intent solution and the Google/Mozilla/Microsoft take on native messaging are vulnerable to phishing attacks which has bearing on authentication solutions. That is, the unavailability of a security context to the called application represents a problem including the p

Re: Intent to implement and ship: Web Authentication

2016-11-30 Thread Anders Rundgren
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 5:42:30 PM UTC+1, Anders Rundgren wrote: > It is a pity that external tokens have become the > focus when the majority will rather rely on embedded > security solutions which nowadays is a standard feature > in Android and Windows platforms. Slight c

Re: Intent to implement and ship: Web Authentication

2016-11-30 Thread Anders Rundgren
It is a pity that external tokens have become the focus when the majority will rather rely on embedded security solutions which nowadays is a standard feature in Android and Windows platforms. On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 8:47:49 PM UTC+1, JC Jones wrote: > Apologies, this got caught in a fi

Re: Intent to implement: Web2Native Bridge

2016-11-30 Thread Anders Rundgren
Google and Apple have already done that, but I'm targeting the other 99.9% who don't have a platform they can update whenever there's a need. Best Anders > Hi Anders, > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Anders Rundgren < > anders.rundgren@gmail.co

Intent to implement: Web2Native Bridge

2016-11-29 Thread Anders Rundgren
There are virtually tons of developers out there using Android Intents to start "Apps" from the Web. However, this mechanism sucks big-time since: 1. It leaves the invoking Web page in an "orphaned" state 2. There's no way to "talk back" to the invoked Web page 3. There's no Web page security con