RE: Whitepaper "SESSION RIDING - A Widespread Vulnerability in Today's Web Applications"

["Evans, Arian" <Arian.Evans () fishnetsecurity com>]

Yvan, 

I do not know if my original post will make it to the list,
but your comments:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yvan G.J. Boily [mailto:yboily () seccuris com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 4:40 PM
>
> This name for the issue is misleading; this is a state management 
> issue combined with a session management issue.
[...]
> The paper is a good introduction to the issue, but perhaps the title 
> is misleading as to the nature of the issue.

Pretty much sum up the points I was trying to make, more succinctly
than I could have. It my facetious example I noted two items:

<quote>
Overall the SecureNet paper is well written and well organized. It facilitates an intelligent
discussion of:

    * State Management general issues
    * Session Management particulars
    * Authentication

and

Additional notes:
HTTP is STATELESS.
Web Applications have no control over web clients.
Web Applications have no control over webapp users.
</quote>

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Arian


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