[webkit-dev] DOMCrypt

[Michael Nordman]

I think bytes and blobs would be sufficient.

+flan at google.com

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:

> Bytes and (likely) blobs are types we're planning to do in DOMCrypt.
> Hashing strings is slightly more delicate because you need to pick an
> encoding.  Do you have a sense, if we did bytes and blobs, would that
> be enough, or are strings really important also?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Michael Nordman <michaeln at google.com>
> wrote:
> > Yes, hashing blobs. Here's the last line of the relevant meeting notes...
> > "In the end, we all agreed that the main thing with the highest utility
> > would be a native hashing implementation that could accept strings,
> bytes,
> > or BLOBs."
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Michael Nordman <michaeln at google.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >> For example, the CryptoHash
> >> >> interface can be implemented independently of the rest of the API and
> >> >> provides value by itself.
> >> >
> >> > Moving forward on that part first sounds reasonable. I've been asked
> >> > about
> >> > that specifically by some app developers that really aren't interested
> >> > in
> >> > the other parts of the larger proposal.
> >>
> >> Are they specifically interested in hashing blobs?  David and I have
> >> been discussing what sort of types these functions should handle.
> >>
> >> Adam
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Sam Weinig <weinig at apple.com>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I think we should let the spec mature a bit before diving in.
> >> >>
> >> >> -Sam
> >> >>
> >> >> On Jul 26, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > Hi webkit-dev,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > As some of you are probably aware, Mozilla is experimenting with
> >> >> > exposing some basic cryptographic primitives to web applications:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Features/DOMCryptAPISpec/Latest
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I wanted to get a sense from the WebKit community about how
> >> >> > interested
> >> >> > we are in implementing this feature.  My sense is that this API is
> >> >> > fairly early in it's lifecycle, so one perspective is that we
> should
> >> >> > wait for Mozilla to experiment for a bit longer and revisit this
> >> >> > question once the design is further along (e.g., submitted to the
> W3C
> >> >> > standards process).
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Another perspective is that there are some simple parts of the API
> >> >> > that we should implement now, and we can grow into the more
> involved
> >> >> > parts of the API as they mature.  For example, the CryptoHash
> >> >> > interface can be implemented independently of the rest of the API
> and
> >> >> > provides value by itself.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thoughts?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Adam
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