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Key Generation in Edge Browser <keygen>
For code signing, or document signing, or e-mail signing or login on small selection of restricted website a personal certificate is needed. When an individual wants to buy such a personal certific...
Keygen HTML element is depreciated by the W3C, that's why Chrome/Chromium followed it.
About Firefox:
Obsolete
This feature is obsolete. Although it may still work in some browsers, its use is discouraged since it could be removed at any time. Try to avoid using it.
<keygen> - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN (mozilla.org)
Great research, thank you HotCakeX
That does not change the requirement for a - let me call it - client side key generation.
It is not a solution for indivuduals.
- True but those companies knowing that, they should use alternative technologies and there are better alternative technologies. asking individuals not to use Chromium based features (that are the most popular ones) for something like that is absurd.
instead of forcing people to use only a specific browser (which also is thinking about getting rid of that feature), they better think about using other ways to provide their service.
