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Is your browser extension a generic solution to the "browser JS crypto" problem, or specific to your application?

Solving that problem would go a long way in making secure communication more accessible, but it's a hard problem.

Rome wasnt built in a day, as the saying goes. Our solution here tries to solve a few of the problems to start with. The goal, however, is to maintain a list of urls, sha1 hashes, update times, and a list of verifiers. The sha1 hashes make sure that the js that you have is the one being distributed (although the hash may soon be upgraded to a different one). The update times and list of verifiers are used to be able to update the code as safely as possible. The verifiers are a list of people who sign the code (with a timestamp). This is used to make sure that any individual isnt sending you a modified version of the js. Those are the goals for that compartment of the code, but as is right now, we are the only signers and so the basic point of the extension is so that we ourselves cant update your code by ourselves (you'd have to update the extension). This means that if we are forced somehow to change the js to get your key, that code will be available to anyone who wants to look at the diff where it should be staring you in the face.

Is the delivered js minimized / compiled or delivered in human readable form?

The container is abstracted, so it can receive whatever type of js the server wants to send. Specifically, the js that we will use will not be compiled so that it can be verified (and it will also be open source). The main problem with this is that it wastes bandwidth which shouldnt be a problem for two reasons: the architecture can cache the js intelligently and the extension will have a lot of the crypto stuff embedded meaning that it wont need to be redistributed per access.

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