Credential Management API

[Gozala]

Credential Management API which is still in draft but Firefox seems to already have it implemented on nightly just hit my radar thanks to @RangerMauve

Have you folks looked at the spec ? Does it addresses use cases relevant to this group ? I'm still struggling to understand the spec (I lack necessary expertise in crypto as well) and also failing at generating a keypair as described on MDN

Given that all dweb protocols use public key cryptography and need to store private keys this spec seems very relevant, so I'd encourage to take a look and possibly raise issues at https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues if it does not address your use case. I would also personally love some summary / explainer here.

Thanks

[RangerMauve]

I think this will be useful for authenticating yourself across different distributed web applications. Something like: "sign this dat:// URL to say you're trusting it with something". Maybe it's how identities can be created.

I'm not sure how useful it would be for implementing the actual protocols in WebExtensions, though. I think SubtleCrypto will be more useful there.