Coding In Paradise

I never knew there were crypto abilities in Gecko-based browsers. There is evidently a window.crypto object, which is accessible:

Mozilla defines a special JavaScript object to allow web pages access to certain cryptographic related services. These services are a balance between the functionality web pages need, and the requirement to protect users from malicious web sites. Most of these services are available via the JavaScript window object as window.crypto. For instance, to obtain a ten byte random number using the cryptographic engine, simply call:

var myrandom = window.crypto.random(10);

Services are provided to enable: smart card events, generating certificate requests, importing user certs, generating random numbers, logging out of your tokens, and signing text.

More details here.

Labels: ajax, javascript