[whatwg] keygen element

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sat Nov 26 13:07:57 PST 2005


On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote:
> On 14 Nov 2005 at 23:43, Ian Hickson wrote:
> 
> > > Also, AFAIK keygen isn't in any standard but implemented in both Gecko 
> > > and Opera. Something for WHATWG to standardise?
> > 
> > <keygen> in general is not specified at all in WHATWG at the moment. I 
> > would be open to adding it but I have so far utterly failed to work out 
> > what it is supposed to do. If you'd like it in the specs, please send a 
> > detailed spec for it (including error handling) and if it is a good spec 
> > then I'll look into adding it at some point.
> 
> I was sent a pointer to some older Netscape documentation:
> http://wp.netscape.com/eng/security/comm4-keygen.html

Yeah, that's all I could find as well. It isn't detailed enough.

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