w3c / w3c/webcrypto

Allow creating hedged ECDSA signatures?

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Description

Similarly to #424, we may want to allow generating hedged ECDSA signatures, as per draft-irtf-cfrg-det-sigs-with-noise.

Unlike in EdDSA, there should be essentially no observable difference to doing so, since ECDSA signatures are already randomized today.

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Start by reading the issue, the related #424 discussion, and the linked draft on signatures with noise. Determine the Web Cryptography API changes needed to allow hedged ECDSA signatures; done means the proposal is sufficiently specified for implementation and interoperability review.

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Domain
api, cryptography
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
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Stale
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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