Best of 2012

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2012. 159 posts.

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Web Cryptography API posted as W3C working draft

This specification describes a JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes an API for applications to generate and/or manage the keying material necessary to perform…