On Sat, 1 May 2010, Nikita Popov wrote:
I do not deny, that keygen has it's use cases (the "nobody" was hyperbolic). I only think, that the use cases are *very* rare. It is overkill to introduce an HTML element therefore. It would be much more sane to provide a JS API (as Janos proposed.) [I would do it myself, but I have only very little knowledge on encryption.]
No one is "introducing" anything. It has already existed for years. We can either document it or force new entrants to the market to reverse engineer it on thier own. document reality rather than ignoring it is oe of the fundamental purposes of this effort.
