Thursday, September 4. 2014
Disappointment with the Web Cryptography API
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Hi, I've found your article and I can be just more disappointed than you. I can't believe that there is still no standard support for signing and encryption with client certificates in browsers. I thought that this is what the CryptoApi is meant for, but I guess I was wrong.
So, have you been at that workshop? What did you find out?
So, have you been at that workshop? What did you find out?
The final report of the workshop is public:
http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/webcrypto-next-workshop/report.html
You can check by yourself the decisions.
http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/webcrypto-next-workshop/report.html
You can check by yourself the decisions.
Did you find a solution to your use case? I have exactly the same problem: using a certificate from the OS store to sign a document, and it would be great if i can do it just with javascript. Now i have a NPAPI plugin solution that i need to migrate, as Chrome will not support it starting next September. And i don't know exactly what to use that is both simple, but more important multi browser usable. I have researched a bit, and i also found the API appears to be in a very early stage, with no certificate discovery use. Please, if you have any ideas you want to share, it would be great.
Sorry Cristian, but no.
It seems that the web cryto api is not thought for digital signing. I extended this entry a bit later with another one which explains a bit more what are the limitations right now with this api:
http://blogs.nologin.es/rickyepoderi/index.php?/archives/116-Back-again-with-the-WebCryptoAPI.html
Thanks for reading!
It seems that the web cryto api is not thought for digital signing. I extended this entry a bit later with another one which explains a bit more what are the limitations right now with this api:
http://blogs.nologin.es/rickyepoderi/index.php?/archives/116-Back-again-with-the-WebCryptoAPI.html
Thanks for reading!
Here is a full-featured library working with all existing major PKI datatypes: https://github.com/GlobalSign/PKI.js. Live examples of using it: pkijs.org
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