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| Subject: | RE: Whitepaper "SESSION RIDING - A Widespread Vulnerability in Today's Web Applications" |
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| Date: | Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:00:50 -0600 |
Yvan, I do not know if my original post will make it to the list, but your comments:
-----Original Message----- From: Yvan G.J. Boily [mailto:yboily@seccuris.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 4:40 PM This name for the issue is misleading; this is a state management issue combined with a session management issue.
[...]
The paper is a good introduction to the issue, but perhaps the title is misleading as to the nature of the issue.
Pretty much sum up the points I was trying to make, more succinctly
than I could have. It my facetious example I noted two items:
<quote>
Overall the SecureNet paper is well written and well organized. It facilitates
an intelligent
discussion of:
* State Management general issues
* Session Management particulars
* Authentication
and
Additional notes:
HTTP is STATELESS.
Web Applications have no control over web clients.
Web Applications have no control over webapp users.
</quote>
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