[whatwg] Problem with <keygen> in html 5

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Aug 10 23:51:44 PDT 2009


On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Stefan Santesson wrote:
> 
> The PKIX work group is responsible for the PKI related standards 
> produced in the IETF, among those the very first certificate standard 
> RFC 2459.
> 
> RFC 2459 is referenced through out section 4.10.11. The keygen element. 
> The problem is that RFC 2459 was obsoleted years ago by RFC 3279 and RFC 
> 3280 back in 2002. RFC 3280 was further Obsoleted by RFC 5280 in 2008 
> while RFC 3279 has been updated by the RFCs 4055, 4491 and 5480.

I really don't understand any of the crypto stuff, but I've tried to 
update the references to point to the current RFCs. Let me know if I 
got anything wrong.

Cheers,
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