Re: Feedback on DOMCryptInternalAPI

2012-04-26 Thread David Dahl
- Original Message - > From: "ianG" > To: dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:14:43 AM > Subject: Re: Feedback on DOMCryptInternalAPI > > > I don't imagine we will have an address bound the the public key. > > > In some countries e.g., in Europe, identi

Re: Feedback on DOMCryptInternalAPI

2012-04-26 Thread helpcrypto helpcrypto
> If you want the signature + document to be legally sustainable and/or > user-interpretable, then plaintext signatures with embedded public keys are > the way to go.  You can base64-encode the public keys :)  Some further > development of this theme is at > http://iang.org/papers/ricardian_contrac

Re: Feedback on DOMCryptInternalAPI

2012-04-26 Thread ianG
(couple of off the wall observations, 'scuse the fast typing...) On 26/04/12 01:53 AM, David Dahl wrote: I have experienced some issues regarding to encoding. A page encoded in ISO send some data to a page encoded in UTF-8 which signs...then, verify could not match. So we decide to use base64

Re: Feedback on DOMCryptInternalAPI

2012-04-26 Thread helpcrypto helpcrypto
> Supporting smart cards in the spec and first implementations is not a goal, > however, I think a lot of the base work we are doing will help in a future > iteration. For instance, I hope that this Gecko 'internal API' will help > extension and browser developers to experiment with smartcards,