Keygen tag in HTML5

Question

So I came across this new tag in HTML5, . I can\'t quite figure out what it is for, how it is applied, and how it might affect browser behavior.

Answer 1

The doc is useful to elaborate on what is the keygen element. Its requirement arises in WebID that maybe understood to be part of Semantic Web of Linked Data as seen at https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/raw-file/tip/spec/index-respec.html#creating-a-certificate 2.1.1