8345 2009-11-20 23:51:36 +0000 The keygen element ought to be extended to support elliptic curve keys. This is especially important in light of NIST guidelines (see pg 63, 66 in http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/documents/SP800-57Part1_3-8-07.pdf (pg 63, pg 66) in http://csrc.nist 2010-10-04 14:57:20 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-keygen-element P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 29662 0 contributor 2009-11-20 23:51:36 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-keygen-element Comment: The keygen element ought to be extended to support elliptic curve keys. This is especially important in light of NIST guidelines (see pg 63, 66 in http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/documents/SP800-57Part1_3-8-07.pdf (pg 63, pg 66) in http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/documents/SP800-57Part1_3-8-07.pdf). Elliptic Curve Cryptography is already integrated into Firefox, IE and Apache and many other products (see http://blogs.sun.com/vipul/entry/next_generation_security_for_the). Posted from: 204.153.12.52 30482 1 ian 2010-01-05 08:40:40 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Partially Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: In principle I agree, but I've no idea what the spec should say here. If you could provide suitable text, that would be great. What is needed is the text that would be put in the source where the spec currently has the text "tech-crypto" commented out.