Would a domain registrar be considered a Service Provider for PCI compliance...
Hypothetical:Company A accepts credit card payments and must be PCI compliant.Company B provides domain registration (but not DNS or web hosting) services to Company A.Some of these domains are used by...
View ArticleEIDAS compliant advanced digital signature in company name
The company I work for is developing a digital signature application very similar to DocuSign, but we aim to make our signatures EIDAS compliant.For the first version we aim to do the same thing...
View Article"Duplicate" of Chrome Tabs causes stale tokens
Our implementation for authentication works like thisUser provides username/password to /login APIAPI returns access token and refresh token in payloadWe store the access token and refresh token in...
View ArticleWhat should we do in practice to mitigate vulnerabilities in WPA3?
WPA3 for Wi-Fi systems is generally acknowledged to be more secure than WPA2. For example, it introduces SAE with the Dragonfly handshake, in an attempt to close the door on the kind of brute force...
View ArticleDoes a signature service provider level digital certificate for electronic...
I have some basic questions regarding eIDAS and 'Advanced Electronic Signatures'.Say, if I create a product under my company Acme Inc that offers a simple electronic signature where I sign every...
View ArticleWhy does Bluetooth Low Energy Secure Connections with Passkey Entry check the...
If we want to enable an authenticated connection via BLE the passkey method seems like a good idea. A 6-digit PIN is generated randomly on one device and has to be entered on the other - these 20 Bit...
View ArticleWhy would one use radio instead of the Internet for secure communications?
This question is inspired by someone's comment on this question elsewhereIn the modern era of Internet and encryption it's quite surprising that countries like Russia still regularly use coded radio...
View ArticleIs HTTP/0.9 considered "End-of-Life" (EOL) due to security vulnerabilities or...
I'm exploring the history and evolution of the HTTP protocol and I know that HTTP/0.9 is generally not used anymore. It's clear how features evolved in newer HTTP versions and how primitive HTTP/0.9...
View ArticleIs there a standard for OTPs tied to transaction details (that has been...
There are standards for Time-based (TOTP) and Counter-based (HOTP) One Time Password schemes.Generated OTPs are independent of the transactions they are used for, such as authorizing a login or a money...
View ArticleWhy are HMAC signatures frequently used for webhook authorization but not...
HMAC signatures are very commonly used for webhook authorization from service to consumer.Examples:StripeSlackTwilioTwitterGitHuband hundreds and hundreds more. This seems a near universal design...
View Articleare new CPUs still vulnerable to attacks like Spectre and Meltdown?
Are the most modern CPUs still susceptible to attacks like Spectre and Meltdown?Is it worth enabling the fixes in kernel (which hit performance) ?Lets say high end laptop CPU such as the AMD Ryzen 7...
View ArticleDoes Firebase App Check provide CSRF protection?
Quoting the OWASP Cheat Sheet on CSRF Prevention:Using the Synchronizer Token Pattern:CSRF tokens should be:Unique per user session.SecretUnpredictable (large random value generated by a secure...
View Articledocker daemon reports 'tls: unconfigured cipher suite' for Nginx reverse...
I am migrating to Artifactory on RHEL8 as a Docker remote repository, i.e. Artifactory is a proxy for a docker registry hosted through Jfrog.io.We have a legacy registry with config in...
View ArticleOracle Kerberos authentication on Linux host with SSSD
I have Linux servers which are members of AD domain, running SSSD demon.SSSD is "Kerberized" and I also do want use Kerberos for Oracle db authentication.NOTE: this is not purely about Oracle database....
View ArticleOutdoor backup: gocryptfs --init --reverse: alway same .diriv in 1st level...
IntroTrying to send encrypted backup of in productions filesystems, I was interested by the ability of using gocryptfs in reverse mode!The idea is touse gocryptfs --reverse from any existing...
View ArticleHow secure is OPAL 2.0?
I basically cannot find any credible information online as to how secure OPAL 2.0 drives are, and so I don't really know how much, or in what cases, I can trust their encryption to keep my data safe if...
View ArticleCVSS3 score for XSS leading to account takeover
Let's say there is a XSS vulnerability in a web application. The XSS allows an attacker to hijack the user's session. Within the session, the attacker can view/modify the user's credit card and billing...
View ArticlePerfect DMZ: LDAP auth to AD
My goal is to integrate a public facing service with AD using LDAP.While I vouch for federated approach to user authentication, the business dictates LDAP.We run a DMZ subnet and I insist on not...
View ArticleHow does Windows Defender for Mac block applications and how can people evade...
I am using MS Defender for Mac to specify a list of unwanted applications on the managed devices in my company. I am concerned that some users try to evade the detection by altering the binaries of the...
View ArticleHow to manage long-term access to profile data using OIDC?
I am designing an ecosystem of web applications that uses an Open ID Connect (OIDC) authorization server. The users authenticate to the authorization server using the Authorization Code Flow with Proof...
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