[cap-talk] Security considerations for cookies

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Mon Feb 15 16:17:29 PST 2010


Adam Barth wrote:
 > Recall, that we're worried about an attack who uses these integrity
 > failures to transplant cookies from his browser to the user's
 > browser. He can just as easily transplant the "unguessable" secret
 > he receives in his browser to the user's browser in the URL or POST
 > parameters.

I have always thought of this, and perhaps heard of this, as "cookie
forcing"



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