[whatwg] <keygen> element

Rimantas Liubertas rimantas at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 05:35:04 PDT 2008


<...>
> For those of you who doesn't know what this element is doing; Its for
> generating a private/public certificate keypair. The browser keeps the
> private one, and the server gets the public one which it signs and
> then sends back to the browser. This is extremely useful for secure
> verification. Netbanks and other heavy security sites should/are using
> this.
<...>
> Is there any hope for this element? What information does which people
> want to make this an HTML5 standard?

Hi,
how is this better than SSL/TLS?


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Rimantas
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