At a glance, the DOMCrypt extension adds `window.mozCipher` to each browser window.
With `mozCipher`, you can generate a public and private key pair. All of the encryption operations are handled by low-level NSS libraries written in C.
For this reason DOMCrypt could not be considered an actually JavaScript-in-content solution. An explanation could be the fact that NSS handles all of the SSL operations in many modern browsers.
Native JavaScript encryption tools. DOMCrypt provides a new global window property called "mozCipher".
Note: The DOMCrypt add-on is cross-platform and it works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
Requirements:
· Firefox 4.0b10pre to 6.*
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The entire API has changed to an asynchronous model, so this is not compatible with previous releases, however, this is the future direction of the API. All crypto operations take place on a worker thread, so this keeps the UI.
