Re:Firesheep, a day later
by pornel on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @03:01PM
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It's all been discussed by WHATWG/W3C and the conclusion was that cookies have too large momentum, Digest is not secure enough, and everyone should be using HTTPS.
Digest is vulnerable to MITM attacks. It's only secure against passive sniffing, but if you can sniff, you usually can also modify response, spoof DNS/ARP/base station. If everyone switched to Digest, it would be only a matter of time when someone writes Digest-stripping Firesheep2.
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/13?changelog
http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-Nov...
Digest is vulnerable to MITM attacks. It's only secure against passive sniffing, but if you can sniff, you usually can also modify response, spoof DNS/ARP/base station. If everyone switched to Digest, it would be only a matter of time when someone writes Digest-stripping Firesheep2.