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Welcome to the Web Crypto WG wiki page !
This page intend to reflect the on going work handled in this WG, with links to deliverables, and sharing as much as possible about our activities.
Status has been updated in July 2013.
WG charter and History
This WG has been kicked off in May 2012 after W3C made several workshops on security and identity topic. Our charter is here
WG Participants
While having 54 participants from 24 organizations and 10 Invited Experts, this WG is always recruiting participants :)
The list of current participants is here
WG Deliverables
Our charter covers the delivery of an API to help developers to use cryptographic primitives. At the moment, we are working on several documents :
- Use cases and requirements [1]
- A low level API, named Web Crypto API [2]
- A Web Crypto Key Discovery API spec
- A high level API [3]
- A Web Certificate API [4]
- A security framework description (on hold at the moment) [5]
WG Testing activity
The maturity of our specifications requires to start the testing activities. Information can be found under the dedicated page
First implementations
- Web Crypto API
Some implementations have alredy been announced for the Web Crypto API.
- BBN :PolyCrypt project presentation and project website, including an add-on for FireFox FoxyCrypt
- Netflix :NfWebCrypto project blog and github
- Google : statement and corresponding issue by the Chromium team.
- Internet Explorer : Developer documentation for IE11 preview
WG meetings (call and F2F)
The WG meets every two weeks during conf call (minutes available on the W3C webcrypto page and meets 3 or 4 times a year.
A shared public calendar is available here
- Summer 2012 meeting in Mozilla offices (Mountain View, California, US) [6]
- Fall 2012 meeting during TPAC 2012 (Lyon, France)[7]
- Spring 2013, eBay/PayPal offices, San Jose, California, US F2F April2013
- Summer 2013 meeting (to be confirmed, but some reasons to go to Korea [8] or US) --> has been cancelled
- Fall 2013 meeting during TPAC 2013 in China on 14/15th of November 2013 registration agenda
Few things to be efficient on IRC [9]
Supporting MIT Sloan School of Management research activities
The WG is also an object of study of JoAnne YATES, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management from MIT Sloan School of Management. More information about this research [10] .
Proposals
- Notes on Wrap/ Unwrap as of July 3 2013: http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/wiki/KeyWrap_Notes_July
- Original wrap/unwrap proposal: http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/wiki/KeyWrap_Proposal
Archives and past activities
The WG sometimes uses the Wiki to gather useful information [11]
