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Re: Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability


From: Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:47:35 -0600

--On November 20, 2007 7:21:29 PM -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt 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 () utdallas edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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