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Re: blocking CSRF attacks

Subject: Re: blocking CSRF attacks
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:48:48 +0100
[Sorry for not replying to the original post, but I lost it.]

I wrote this six years ago:

  http://shh.thathost.com/text/client-side-trojans.txt

The history of CSRF is quite long, and the problem has been given several names (not sure if the links still work, as this is a list I made a couple of years ago):

* May 2000: Jim Fulton writes about it on zope.org
  http://www.zope.org/Members/jim/ZopeSecurity/ClientSideTrojan
  Name: Client-side Trojan

    * May 2000: Referenced on Linux Weekly News
      http://lwn.net/2000/features/Redirect.php3

    * May 2000: Referenced on kuro5hin.org, including demo of having
      people post messages to slashdot.
      http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2000/5/9/183550/1910

* June 2001: Peter W describes it on BugTraq
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/191390
  Name: Cross-Site Request Forgeries

* December 2004: Thomas Schreiber writes about it on webappsec
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/107/384630
  Name: Session Riding


Sverre.

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