full-disclosure - Re: Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

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Message-ID: <95436CB354FD9F8BB406AAC9@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:47:35 -0600
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@...allas.edu>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

--On November 20, 2007 7:21:29 PM -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

> 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. ;)
>
They're not???)(*&)(*&@)(*(*#)(*&$

:-D

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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