Tag: Cryptography

How to generate keys with the Web Cryptography API

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I have been playing around with the Web Cryptography API a lot lately.  My most recent post was about getRandomValues().  I wanted to take a moment to investigate two more methods: generateKey() and exportKey().  The generation of a good cryptographic key is fairly fundamental.  I wrote up a short demo app, to demonstrate how the two …

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Generating random numbers with the Web Cryptography API

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The W3C has been working on a Web Cryptography API for a while, now.  The current version (11 December 2014) is their “Candidate Recommendation”.  As such, I would not necessarily consider it fully ready for primetime but that does not mean that we can not play around with it a bit.  I figured that today, we should …

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