26320 2014-07-12 21:03:41 +0000 RsaHashedKeyAlgorithm inherits from RsaKeyAlgorithm 2014-10-22 21:20:49 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Web Cryptography Web Cryptography API Document unspecified PC All RESOLVED WONTFIX P2 normal --- 1 rlb watsonm bzbarsky public-webcrypto rlb sleevi watsonm oldest_to_newest 108887 0 rlb 2014-07-12 21:03:41 +0000 With the removal of RSAES-PKCS1-v1_5, the dictionary RsaKeyAlgorithm disappeared as well. So RsaHashedKeyAlgorithm needs to inherit directly from KeyAlgorithm, not from RsaKeyAlgorithm. 112215 1 watsonm 2014-09-25 22:58:07 +0000 This seems straightforward. 112230 2 watsonm 2014-09-26 00:46:42 +0000 https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcrypto-api/rev/06d1b5781e13 112772 3 sleevi 2014-10-07 02:18:41 +0000 Reopening. The resolution introduced two dictionaries that are unused, except for inheritance purposes. With the removal of RSAES-PKCS1-v1_5, these dictionaries should be folded as members of RsaHashedKeyGenParams / RsaHashedKeyAlgorithm. 112788 4 watsonm 2014-10-07 14:08:07 +0000 Well, inheritance is a form os use, so they are not unused. I left these separate because it seemed like it might be useful to have the base definitions available for algorithms that use RSA keys without parameterization with a hash. If the removed RSA-ES is the only such algorithm that will ever exist, then indeed these dictionaries would never be used. This is entirely editorial anyway. 112932 5 sleevi 2014-10-09 21:37:00 +0000 (In reply to Mark Watson from comment #4) > Well, inheritance is a form os use, so they are not unused. > > I left these separate because it seemed like it might be useful to have the > base definitions available for algorithms that use RSA keys without > parameterization with a hash. If the removed RSA-ES is the only such > algorithm that will ever exist, then indeed these dictionaries would never > be used. > > This is entirely editorial anyway. We had great discussions with the TAG and Boris on the non-idiomatic approach to inheritance, with multiple vendors expressing concerns over the "C++ style" API. I think we can and should nuke the inheritance, as it's visible (as has been noted before) 112934 6 bzbarsky 2014-10-09 21:53:50 +0000 Dictionary inheritance is just a spec artifact; it's not visible in any way that I'm aware of... 113601 7 watsonm 2014-10-22 21:20:49 +0000 As per comment#6 there is no visible difference between the current specification and combining the dictionary definitions.