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Bug 8345 - 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
Summary: The keygen element ought to be extended to support elliptic curve keys. This ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-11-20 23:51 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:57 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2009-11-20 23:51:36 UTC 
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). 

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-05 08:40:40 UTC 
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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.