Re: [Cfrg] Proposed Informational Note: Security Guidelines for Cryptographic Algorithms in the W3C Web Cryptography API

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Thu, 20 November 2014 16:57 UTC

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If you want this to be a CFRG-edited draft, that's great. As a few people have pointed out, it has some deep flaws, and having lots of eyes on it with regular updates would be valuable.

--Paul Hoffman