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Re: [Cfrg] [saag] Fwd: W3C Web Crypto API - moving to Last Call

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Fri, 21 March 2014 18:56 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: "Paterson, Kenny" <Kenny.Paterson@rhul.ac.uk>, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, "saag@ietf.org" <saag@ietf.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:55:50 -0400
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Their response seems to have been "we're designing an API for folks who understand the issues."
(e.g., http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webcrypto/2012Sep/0189.html)

That seems naïve to me.

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