Yes, hashing blobs. Here's the last line of the relevant meeting notes... "In the end, we all agreed that the main thing with the highest utility would be a native hashing implementation that could accept strings, bytes, or BLOBs."
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Michael Nordman <micha...@google.com> > wrote: > >> For example, the CryptoHash > >> interface can be implemented independently of the rest of the API and > >> provides value by itself. > > > > Moving forward on that part first sounds reasonable. I've been asked > about > > that specifically by some app developers that really aren't interested in > > the other parts of the larger proposal. > > Are they specifically interested in hashing blobs? David and I have > been discussing what sort of types these functions should handle. > > Adam > > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Sam Weinig <wei...@apple.com> wrote: > >> > >> I think we should let the spec mature a bit before diving in. > >> > >> -Sam > >> > >> On Jul 26, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Adam Barth wrote: > >> > >> > Hi webkit-dev, > >> > > >> > As some of you are probably aware, Mozilla is experimenting with > >> > exposing some basic cryptographic primitives to web applications: > >> > > >> > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Features/DOMCryptAPISpec/Latest > >> > > >> > I wanted to get a sense from the WebKit community about how interested > >> > we are in implementing this feature. My sense is that this API is > >> > fairly early in it's lifecycle, so one perspective is that we should > >> > wait for Mozilla to experiment for a bit longer and revisit this > >> > question once the design is further along (e.g., submitted to the W3C > >> > standards process). > >> > > >> > Another perspective is that there are some simple parts of the API > >> > that we should implement now, and we can grow into the more involved > >> > parts of the API as they mature. For example, the CryptoHash > >> > interface can be implemented independently of the rest of the API and > >> > provides value by itself. > >> > > >> > Thoughts? > >> > > >> > Adam > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > webkit-dev mailing list > >> > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > >> > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> webkit-dev mailing list > >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > > > >
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