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Following Data Leak, Facebook Proposes Encryption for UIDs
From: Robert Slade <rmslade () shaw ca>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:39:24 -0700
"In response to a discovery earlier this week that some Facebook applications were inadvertently sharing user information to third parties, Facebook engineers are proposing that Facebook UIDs become encrypted." Oh, gee, some real genius must have thought of that! "Under the new proposal, the parameters that are passed back to iFrame-based applications will be encrypted using an application’s secret key, meaning that only the actual application will be able to read the information and accidental disclosures over HTTP headers will no longer be possible." http://mashable.com/2010/10/21/facebook-uid-encryption/ Following Data Leak, Facebook Proposes Encryption for UIDs - http://on.mash.to/bh3sIM OK, probably symmetric. So it's safe until it hits the game saerver. At which point ... (Game developers are just so inherently security concious ...) ====================== rslade () computercrime org slade () victoria tc ca rslade () vcn bc ca "If you do buy a computer, don't turn it on." - Richards' 2nd Law ============= for back issues: [Base URL] site http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/ CISSP refs: [Base URL]mnbksccd.htm Security Dict.: [Base URL]secgloss.htm Book reviews: [Base URL]mnbk.htm [Base URL]review.htm Partial/recent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techbooks/ Review mailing list: send mail to techbooks-subscribe () egroups com http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Following Data Leak, Facebook Proposes Encryption for UIDs Robert Slade (Oct 21)
- Re: Following Data Leak, Facebook Proposes Encryption for UIDs Jeffrey Walton (Oct 22)