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26 January 2017 | Archive
The Web Cryptography Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of the Web Cryptography API. This specification describes a JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes an API for applications to generate and/or manage the keying material necessary to perform these operations. Uses for this API range from user or service authentication, document or code signing, and the confidentiality and integrity of communications.
26 January 2017 | Archive
The Web Application Security Working Group invites implementations of the Candidate Recommendation of Referrer Policy. This specification describes how Web authors can set a referrer policy for documents they create, and describes the impact on the Referer HTTP header for outgoing requests and navigations.
24 January 2017 | Archive
The XMLQuery Working Group has published two Group Notes:
- XQuery Update Facility 3.0. This document defines an update facility that extends the XML Query language, XQuery. The XQuery Update Facility 3.0 provides expressions that can be used to make persistent changes to instances of the XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0.
- XQuery Update Facility 3.0 Requirements and Use Cases: This document specifies goals, requirements and use cases for the XQuery Update Facility 3.0. XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language provides queries but has no support for adding new values or changing existing values. The XML Query Working Group intends to add support for updates in a future version of XQuery. This document only contains requirements that have not been previously met by XQuery Update Facility 1.0.
