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submitted 1 week ago by aral@mastodon.ar.al to c/firefox@fedia.io

Native support for ed25519/x25519 in the browser would be a huge step forward for in-browser/client-side cryptography.

Looks like Google is holding up our ability to use it in production.

(Firefox and Safari both have support enabled by default.)

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_subtlecrypto_sign_ed25519

#ed25519 #x25519 #cryptography #browsers #web #mozilla #apple #google #firefox #safari #chrome #privacy #security #WebCryptoAPI

[-] aral@mastodon.ar.al 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

@DodoTheDev @Lokjo @librewolf @Vivaldi Yeah, although I just read that they’re using the manipulative “Maybe later” pattern in at least one of their dialogs so that would be a good thing to fix for the future (I’m using Vivaldi too as my default browser.)

The opposite of “Yes” is “No”, not “Maybe later.”

[-] aral@mastodon.ar.al -2 points 4 months ago

@Bro666 @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Which would make perfect sense if I had said “Plasma forces you to use Firefox.” Would you like any other straw men to rile against?

[-] aral@mastodon.ar.al 0 points 4 months ago

@Aaron @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Yes, to non-private defaults. Let’s put it this way: if Firefox’s defaults respected your privacy, Mozilla would go bankrupt tomorrow.

[-] aral@mastodon.ar.al -3 points 4 months ago

@dajix @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social It’s deceptive. They know exactly what they’re doing. That’s why they also ask if you haven’t used your browser for a while.

[-] aral@mastodon.ar.al 2 points 1 year ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Very cool. Here’s hoping to see this in @gnome one day too.

PS. I’m sure you’re aware of it but, just in case, the window positions/dimensions appear to be lost on the restart. (An issue I have on GNOME too whenever it returns from suspend.)

[-] aral@mastodon.ar.al 3 points 1 year ago

@ManeraKai So if I get this right, you can use this to redirect links to other mastodon servers so that you end up on your own server where you can interact with it, right?

(Can’t wait to try it out, thanks.) :)

aral

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