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Date: Tue Jun 13 06:13:54 2006
From: qballus at gmail.com (Q-Ball)
Subject: SSL VPNs and security

SSL VPNs have their legitimate place as does IPSec. Personally, I'd rather
that travelling exec's who need to log on from a public Internet terminal,
dont have full IP connectivity into the network, but maybe that's just me.

Q-Ball

On 6/10/06, Tim <tim-security@...tinelchicken.org> wrote:
>
> > That depends on whether the solution tries to solve single-sign-on
> > problems as well.  If the vendor is trying to handle SSO in such an
> > environment, then they are probably using domain cookies.  The
> > problems are exactly the same as the ones Michal listed, plus some
> > additional ones specific to domain cookies.
>
> Right, that does make it difficult.  There's probably work arounds, but
> they may be browser-specific.  Wildcard cookies, cookies set to other
> origins, or somehow setting document.domain back to the base domain
> after the initial page load might help, but some would probably present
> the same problem.
>
> The web was never designed for complex application development.  At
> least, web standards aren't.  Use a real VPN.
>
> cheers,
> tim
>
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