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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - Handle key generation with empty challenge string"
   href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165835">165835</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Handle key generation with empty challenge string
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>WebKit
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>WebKit Nightly Build
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Unspecified
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Unspecified
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>Normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P2
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>WebCore Misc.
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>webkit-unassigned&#64;lists.webkit.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>wilander&#64;apple.com
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        <pre><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_RESOLVED  bz_closed"
   title="RESOLVED FIXED - Move WKSignedPublicKeyAndChallengeString into WebCore and make it proper C++"
   href="show_bug.cgi?id=160945">https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160945</a> introduced an ASSERT(challenge.data()) that didn't catch empty challenge strings. Also, empty challenge strings are allowed:

&quot;If the element has a challenge attribute, then let challenge be that attribute's value. Otherwise, let challenge be the empty string.&quot;
<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#the-keygen-element">https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#the-keygen-element</a>

Email certificate generation at <a href="https://www.comodo.com/home/email-security/free-email-certificate.php">https://www.comodo.com/home/email-security/free-email-certificate.php</a> broke because of <a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_RESOLVED  bz_closed"
   title="RESOLVED FIXED - Move WKSignedPublicKeyAndChallengeString into WebCore and make it proper C++"
   href="show_bug.cgi?id=160945">https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160945</a>.</pre>
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