669927 - [MozillaID] Create a Crypto API for Addons to generate keypairs, sign and verify data

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[David Dahl :ddahl]

The Mozilla ID project will be iterating on Firefox integration of the Verified Email Protocol (and other concepts). This work will first use the Addon SDK in order to quickly test UX, etc...

This API will be the beginning of a very useful, general purpose crypto toolkit for Addons to consume.

This bug is for Addon-SDK integration

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

David: have you written up a feature page for this API yet?  It'd be useful for us to be able to read up on the proposal!

Comment 2

[David Dahl :ddahl]

(In reply to comment #1)
> David: have you written up a feature page for this API yet?  It'd be useful
> for us to be able to read up on the proposal!

yes. I have started one. it is still in draft: https://wiki.mozilla.org/AddonSDKCryptoAPI

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Assigning to dcm to flesh out the feature specification.

Comment 5

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

We're moving from bugs to feature pages for tracking future SDK features, so resolving this bug in favor of the feature page.  Once the feature page is complete, and we've decided to implement the feature, we can reopen one or more bugs, as needed, on the implementation work to make it happen.