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Bug 27137 - Incorrect usages for ECDSA key given by "Generate Key"
Summary: Incorrect usages for ECDSA key given by "Generate Key"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Web Cryptography
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Cryptography API Document (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
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Assignee: Ryan Sleevi
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Reported: 2014-10-23 00:27 UTC by Eric Roman
Modified: 2014-10-30 23:16 UTC (History)
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Description Eric Roman 2014-10-23 00:27:52 UTC 
The current language for Generate Key says that:

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11. Set the [[usages]] internal slot of publicKey to be the empty list.
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16. Set the [[usages]] internal slot of privateKey to be the usage intersection of usages and [ "sign", "verify" ].
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This wouldn't yield a useful publicKey.

Instead I propose using the wording from RSA-SSA's "Generate Key" steps:

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11. Set the [[usages]] internal slot of publicKey to be the usage intersection of usages and [ "verify" ].
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16. Set the [[usages]] internal slot of privateKey to be the usage intersection of usages and [ "sign" ].
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