full-disclosure - Re: Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

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Message-ID: <25998.1195604489@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:21:29 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Eduardo Tongson <propolice@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:51:30 +0800, Eduardo Tongson said:

> I wonder why we don't see web applications use secure cookie recipes
> like [1] and [2]. There are also existing secure password hashing
> frameworks such as Solar's [3]. Are developers just unaware of these
> secure schemes?.

Browse the worsethanfailure.com website for a while, and you'll convince
yourself that the average developer thinks that booleans are trinary-state. ;)

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