[KEYPROV] HTML5 WG Key Management Standardization Effort

"Anders Rundgren" <anders.rundgren@telia.com> Wed, 08 April 2009 19:56 UTC

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http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-keygen-element

Since the PKI community at large seems to ignore the client-side of
PKI in browsers, the HTML 5 designers apparently didn't find any other
solution but adopting the 15 year old Netscape hack known as <keygen>.

Anders