Issue:
There does not seem to be a standard method of requesting elevated permissions
where local file access or cross-domain file access is required.

Consequence:
Currently, one must create a duplicate origin-clean Canvas element
to copy image data from a dirty element after privilege escalation.


Proposed method:
CanvasRenderingContext2D
   resetOriginClean
throws SECURITY_ERR  exception

When resetOriginClean is executed, an implementation shall request elevated
privileges, and if granted, set the origin-clean flag of the canvas element to true.


Background:

Section 4.8.10.3 Security with canvas  elements

Information leakage can occur if scripts from one origin can access information (e.g. read pixels) from images from another origin (one that isn't the same). To mitigate this, canvas elements are defined to have a flag indicating whether they are origin-clean. All canvas elements must start with their origin-clean set to true.


-Charles

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