This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
Completed Work
W3C Recommendations have
been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation
Track.
Group Notes are not standards and do not
have the same level of W3C endorsement.
Standards
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2017-01-26
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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 these operations. Key storage is provided for both temporary and permanent keys. Access to keying material is contingent on the same origin policy. Uses for this API range from user or service authentication, document or code signing, and the confidentiality and integrity of communications.
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2016-12-15
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This document defines a policy language used to declare a set of content restrictions for a web resource, and a mechanism for transmitting the policy from a server to a client where the policy is enforced.
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2016-06-23
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This document defines a mechanism by which user
agents may verify that a fetched resource has been delivered without
unexpected manipulation.
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2014-01-16
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This document defines a mechanism to enable client-side cross-origin requests.
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Group Notes
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2016-09-13
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This document defines mechanisms by which web developers can limit the ways in which cookies may be set in the context of their sites and applications.
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2016-09-13
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This document defines a new HTTP header that allows authors to instruct user agents to remember ("pin") and enforce a Content Security Policy for a set of hosts for a period of time.
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2016-09-13
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Entry Point Regulation aims to mitigate the risk of reflected cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site script inclusion (XSSI), and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks by demarcating the areas of an application which are intended to be externally referencable. A specified policy is applied on external requests for all non-demarcated resources.
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2016-03-29
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This specification describes a JavaScript API for discovering named, origin-specific pre-provisioned cryptographic keys for use with the Web Cryptograpy API.
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2015-02-19
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Content Security Policy is a mechanism web applications can use to mitigate the broad class of content injection vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting (XSS). Content Security Policy is a declarative policy that lets the authors (or server administrators) of a web application restrict from where the application can load resources.
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2013-09-10
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This document consists of use cases for the Web Cryptography API and the Key Discovery API, expressed as scenarios along with illustrative code snippets.
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2012-05-29
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This specification defines the From-Origin response header - a way for resources to declare they are unavailable within an embedding context.
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Drafts
Below are draft documents:
Candidate Recommendations, other Working Drafts .
Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track
process. Others may be published as Group Notes or
become obsolete specifications.
Candidate Recommendations
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2017-01-26
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This document describes how an author can set a referrer
policy for documents they create, and the impact of such a policy on the
referer HTTP header for outgoing requests and navigations.
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2016-09-15
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This specification provides guidelines for user agent implementors and
spec authors for implementing features whose properties dictate that
they be exposed to the web only within a trustworthy environment.
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2016-08-02
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This specification describes how and why user agents disallow
rendering and execution of content loaded over unencrypted or
unauthenticated connections in the context of an encrypted and
authenticated document.
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2015-10-08
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This document defines a mechanism which allows authors to instruct a user agent to upgrade a priori insecure resource requests to secure transport before fetching them.
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Other Working Drafts
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2017-11-30
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This document defines an imperative mechanism which allows web developers to instruct a user agent to clear a user’s locally stored data related to a host and its subdomains.
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2017-09-25
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The Permissions API allows a web application to be aware of the status of a given permission, to know whether it is granted, denied or if the user will be asked whether the permission should be granted.
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2017-08-04
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This specification describes an imperative API enabling a website to
request a user’s credentials from a user agent, and to help the user agent
correctly store user credentials for future use.
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2016-09-13
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This document defines a mechanism by which web developers can control the resources which a particular page can fetch or execute, as well as a number of security-relevant policy decisions.
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2016-09-09
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This document defines a mechanism by which a web page can embed a nested browsing context if and only if it agrees to enforce a particular set of restrictions upon itself.
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2016-06-07
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This document defines directives for the Content Security Policy mechanism to declare a set of input protections for a web resource's user interface, defines a non-normative set of heuristics for Web user agents to implement these input protections, and a reporting mechanism for when they are triggered.
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2015-10-15
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This specification defines an API for specifying privacy and integrity policies on data, in the form of origin labels, and a mechanism for confining code according to such policies. This allows Web application authors and server operators to shared data with untrusted - buggy but not malicious - code (e.g., in a mashup scenario) yet impose restrictions on how the code can share the data further.
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Obsolete Specifications
These specifications have either been superseded by others,
or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
purposes, but are not intended to be used.
Retired
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2015-08-06
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This document specifies a runtime and security model for Web Applications. It describes how an application is defined through an application manifest, and how it can be installed, updated and packaged. It also specifies how such an application can be put into the background, be put back in the foreground or woken up. Finally, the document describes the security model for such applications. This includes the permission model and the different security rules that would apply.
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2014-10-02
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The Uniform Messaging Policy (UMP) enables cross-site messaging that avoids Cross-Site-Request-Forgery and similar attacks that abuse HTTP cookies and other credentials.
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