Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-12-05 Thread Robert Kaiser
fma spew schrieb: Summarizing. 1) WebCrypto does not initially plan support for making end-user certificates available. 2) Our use case, currently implemented as a NPAPI plug-in, needs Mozilla to continue supporting NPAPI until WebCrypto makes end-user certficates available. You forgot: 3)

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-12-04 Thread helpcrypto helpcrypto
Sorry to appear so late, busy weeks!. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:27 AM, fma spew fmas...@gmail.com wrote: 1) WebCrypto does not initially plan support for making end-user certificates available. W3C WG divided this on 2 specs: Webcrypto and Key Discovery. Webcrypto is about operations like

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-12-03 Thread fma spew
Summarizing. 1) WebCrypto does not initially plan support for making end-user certificates available. 2) Our use case, currently implemented as a NPAPI plug-in, needs Mozilla to continue supporting NPAPI until WebCrypto makes end-user certficates available. I have a disturbing feeling. I hope

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-12-01 Thread Florian Bender
Am Mittwoch, 20. November 2013 20:11:17 UTC+1 schrieb fma spew: And btw, is WebCrypto an only-Mozilla thing? No: http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/ (work in progress) (Though Mozilla has proprietary extensions: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript_crypto – but be aware that

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-12-01 Thread Alex Jordan
On Nov 20, 2013 5:42 AM, Benjamin Smedberg benja...@smedbergs.us wrote: From what I know of NaCl, you won't be able to get outside the sandbox and access any system libraries, so unless Chrome makes client certificates available to you via API, it won't help this use case. I suspect the Chrome

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-11-21 Thread fma spew
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Benjamin Smedberg benja...@smedbergs.uswrote: On 11/20/2013 3:10 AM, fma spew wrote: Our customers' end-users have their end-user certificates stored in the Personal logical certificate store on Windows. The rest of needed certificates, (Intermediary and/or

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-11-21 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 11/20/2013 2:11 PM, fma spew wrote: The prompt part is not needed to be provided by WebCrypto. In the latest releases, the prompt part has been taken care of our plugin. However, in our new prototype, the scripting UI part (Dojo) will take care of it. I expect that the browser will need to

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-11-20 Thread fma spew
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Benjamin Smedberg benja...@smedbergs.uswrote: On 11/8/2013 4:33 AM, fma spew wrote: We have a npapi-npruntime plug-in that access the Windows certificate store via CAPI to provide the end-user with its personal certificates to perform different operations.

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-11-20 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 11/20/2013 3:10 AM, fma spew wrote: Our customers' end-users have their end-user certificates stored in the Personal logical certificate store on Windows. The rest of needed certificates, (Intermediary and/or Trusted Root Certificates) are also stored on Windows certificate stores. Our

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-11-13 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Matt Brubeck mbrub...@mozilla.com wrote: One alternative is a Firefox extension. Compared to cross-browser NPAPI plug-ins, it seems worse to have browser-specific extensions that expose functionality to Web content. We've also mentioned the possibility of

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-11-13 Thread helpcrypto helpcrypto
Hi. My two cents. On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Benjamin Smedberg benja...@smedbergs.uswrote: On 11/8/2013 4:33 AM, fma spew wrote: We have a npapi-npruntime plug-in that access the Windows certificate store via CAPI to provide the end-user with its personal certificates to perform

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-11-12 Thread Matt Brubeck
On 11/8/2013 1:33 AM, fma spew wrote: 3- We haven't found any indication of Mozilla about alternatives for these kind of plug-ins, meaning plug-ins that need access to, in this case, Windows stuff. Google has provided alternatives though. One alternative is a Firefox extension. Firefox

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-11-10 Thread Brian Smith
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:33 AM, fma spew fmas...@gmail.com wrote: We have a npapi-npruntime plug-in that access the Windows certificate store via CAPI to provide the end-user with its personal certificates to perform different operations. We can and should switch from using NSS to using the

Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-11-09 Thread fma spew
We have a npapi-npruntime plug-in that access the Windows certificate store via CAPI to provide the end-user with its personal certificates to perform different operations. We are aware of the plug-in activation plan (click-to-play):

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-11-09 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 11/8/2013 4:33 AM, fma spew wrote: We have a npapi-npruntime plug-in that access the Windows certificate store via CAPI to provide the end-user with its personal certificates to perform different operations. What is the use case you're solving? Are you trying to install a personal/client