[whatwg] window.cipher HTML crypto API draft spec

Adam Barth w3c at adambarth.com
Fri May 20 15:29:43 PDT 2011


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:16 PM, David Dahl <ddahl at mozilla.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "=JeffH" <Jeff.Hodges at KingsMountain.com>
> To: whatwg at lists.whatwg.org
>
>  >> I have created a Firefox extension that implements all of the above, and am
>  >> working on an experimental patch that integrates this API into Firefox.
>
>> A subtle-but-important aspect to note about the above is that you impl'd it via
>  interfacing to the in-browser NSS API rather than (re)coding it in JS.
>
> Yes, that is the case, I am using NSS. I imagine other browser vendors would also use NSS to implement this.

It's very unlikely that Microsoft will use NSS to implement this API in IE.

Adam



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