On 10 Mar 2013, at 10:51, Ben Laurie wrote:

On 10 March 2013 01:25, Tony Arcieri 
<tony.arci...@gmail.com<mailto:tony.arci...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Jeffrey Walton 
<noloa...@gmail.com<mailto:noloa...@gmail.com>> wrote:

The Web Cryptography Working Group looks well organized, provides a
very good roadmap, and offers good documentation.
http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/.

for example they recommend CBC mode which is fraught with
problems.

Where?

Right here:  http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI:

19.1. Recommended algorithms

This section is non-normative

As the API is meant to be extensible in order to keep up with future 
developments within cryptography and to provide flexibility, there are no 
strictly required algorithms. Thus users of this API should check to see what 
algorithms are currently recommended and supported by implementations.

However, in order to promote interoperability for developers, there are a 
number of recommended algorithms. The recommended algorithms are:

  *   HMAC<http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/#hmac> using 
SHA-256<http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/#alg-sha-256>
  *   RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5<http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/#rsassa-pkcs1> using 
SHA-256<http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/#alg-sha-256>
  *   ECDSA<http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/#ecdsa> using 
P-256<http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/#dfn-NamedCurve-p256> curve and 
SHA-256<http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/#alg-sha-256>
  *   AES-CBC<http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/#aes-cbc>
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