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Re: IIS 5 cookie encryption password
From: Santiago Barahona <sant-bar () dsv su se>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:40:59 +0200
check out: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3257 http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html"SYN cookies are particular choices of initial TCP sequence numbers by TCP servers." The first sequence number sent can be any value as decided by the sender... right?... many use zero as the initial sequence number... however it seems that the SYN cookies are initial sequence numbers that are carefully constructed according to the following rules:
t = A counter incremented every 64 secondsm = The Maximum segment size value that the server would have stored in the SYN queue entry s = The result of a cryptographic secret function computed over the server IP address and port number, the client IP address and port number, and the value t. The returned value "s " must be a 24-bit value. The initial TCP sequence number, i.e. the SYN Cookie, is computed as follows:
First 5 bits: t mod 32 Next 3 bits: an encoded value representing m Final 24 bits: s The server then performs the following operations.Checks the value t against the current time to see if the connection is expired.
Recomputes s to determine whether this is, indeed, a valid SYN Cookie.Decodes the value m from the 3-bit encoding in the SYN Cookie, which it then can use to reconstruct the SYN queue entry.
From this point forward, the connection proceeds as normal. On 3 Apr 07, at 18:32, Serguey Forcade wrote: Thanks, but I based my assumptions on an article from Microsoft(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/ iisbook/c06_asp_session_id_and_session_security.mspx?mfr=true)
Even tho your statement makes sense. It's just that I haven't been able to find more info about the relationship between the session ID and the cookie. On 4/3/07, Rogan Dawes <discard () dawes za net> wrote:
Serguey Forcade wrote: > Hi, I'd like to know if anyone knows of a paper that explains how to > extract the encryption password IIS creates when it starts up, and> uses to encrypt the session ID + random data in order to generate the> cookie value the users receives. > > I'm interested in IIS 5.0. > > Thanks. > Take this with a pinch of salt, but I don't think that the session identifier and the cookie value are directly related.One reason for this statement is that if you abandon the session (usingASP), and create a new one, the cookie value does not change. However, the result of "Session.SessionID" DOES change.I suspect that the cookie value is generated using a combination of somestatic/sequential info, and some random data, and then associated withthe next available (i.e sequential integer) SessionID. When the session is abandoned, the session object associated with that integer SessionIDis discarded. A subsequent request from the client containing the oldSession Cookie value will then automatically be associated with the nextavailable sequential integer SessionID. Hope this helps. Rogan P.S. One consequence of this inability to change the cookie value through abandoning the session is that ASP apps are AUTOMATICALLY vulnerable to Session Fixation <http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Session_Fixation>. An approach to protecting ASP apps against session fixation is shown here <http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Session_Fixation_Protection>
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