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The Chicken-Egg problem is Problem 0 with Javascript crypto. Until you can solve that, everything else is just farting into the wind.
by rosser 13y ago
The Chicken-Egg problem is Problem 0 with Javascript crypto. Until you can solve that, everything else is just farting into the wind.
- jxson 13y agoProgressive enhancement is a real thing and as the browsers start to implement native support for the rest of Web Cryptography API the situation will only improve. We have to start somewhere.
- wmf 13y agoAssuming that browsers have implemented Web Crypto, how do you know you're using it and not an evil polyfill?
- blazingice 13y agoSome JS engines already disallow security-violating operations from happening (such as inserting evil hooks into document.location). These same protections could apply to any Crypto object.