+rbarnes is responsible for adding WebCrypto, which includes some JOSE features.

On 2014-08-12, at 10:22, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> The possibility of using JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) - 
> specifically the verification part of the JSON Web Signature (JWS) component 
> - came up as part of planning a JavaScript-based feature I'm working on.
> 
> We don't appear to have an implementation in mozilla-central yet. I'm trying 
> to weigh whether to spend extra effort to add JWS support to the tree or to 
> try to shoehorn existing signing solutions to fit my need.
> 
> First, does anyone know of an existing browser-side implementation of JWS 
> used by Mozilla? I know we have Python in Marketplace doing signing. We /may/ 
> have parts of Firefox OS doing client-side signing verification. My 
> requirement is for chrome-privileged JS to do X509 signing verification. I'll 
> settle for an XPIDL interface to NSS.
> 
> Second, would having JWS support in m-c be beneficial to anyone else?
> 
> If this isn't easy to add, I'll probably be lazy and leverage an existing 
> solution. Convince me it is worth doing.
> 
> Gregory
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