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Web 2.0 A Security Nightmare? SSL and Webapps Webmontag Karlsruhe, 29.5.2006 Hanno Bck, http://www.hboeck.de/ Web 2.0 for everyone? Web 2.0 applications should be available for the common user Blog in 1 minute, Get your own


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Web 2.0 – A Security Nightmare?

SSL and Webapps Webmontag Karlsruhe, 29.5.2006 Hanno Böck, http://www.hboeck.de/

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Web 2.0 for everyone?

  • Web 2.0 applications should be

available for the common user

  • »Blog in 1 minute«, »Get your
  • wn Wiki« etc.
  • Apps are not »Secure by

default«

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Sniffing

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Sniffing is easy

  • ethereal
  • ettercap
  • dsniff
  • Solution: Login via https!
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No HTTPS

  • Wikipedia
  • digg.com
  • plazes
  • del.icio.us
  • myblog.de
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Have an own rootserver?

  • Cool, make your app accessible

with either http or https.

  • Advanced: mod_rewrite to

forward login-page to https.

  • And the world is fine?
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Problem: IP-Adresses

  • One SSL-Cert per IP
  • Domain in Cert
  • IP-Adresses are always limited
  • Strato max. 2, 1&1 max. 8
  • IPv6?
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Problem: Certificate

  • Expensive cert by Verisign &

Co?

  • Self-signed?
  • CAcert
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Everything perfect?

  • Own server
  • App available via http or https
  • Login-page forwards to https
  • CAcert-signed cert
  • IPv6-tunnel for server

and client

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Where's my cookie?

  • Session-Cookie by default per

domain – don't call your page via http after https.

  • Workaround: https on other

subdomain

  • Secure webapps
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Completely offtopic: Werbung

GPN 5 Gulasch Programmier Nacht

  • 9. - 11.6.2006

CCC Karlsruhe/Entropia www.entropia.de