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Re:Show HN: CMS Server written in Go (alpha) by wilsonfiifi on Saturday June 01, 2013 @07:10AM (#5803534)
:-) put me on the spot! thanks for going through the code though.

security layer definitely needs more work. my choices were mostly limited by my haste to get a working prototype and not very well thought through.

Re:Show HN: CMS Server written in Go (alpha) by mappu on Saturday June 01, 2013 @07:30AM (#5803572)
No problem, thanks for sharing your project with everyone! Just people definitely like to use symbols in passwords.

Your fundamentals are fine, i don't think those are very serious problems compared to the average custom web app in the wild (most of which probably use plaintext passwords with no concern for sqli or xss...)

Re:Show HN: CMS Server written in Go (alpha) by ryalfalpha on Saturday June 01, 2013 @01:19PM (#5804908)
Haven't done much golang and don't have it installed on this laptop, but are string comparisons constant time?

If not, I think there is potential for a timing attack here?

if usr == _admin_usr && pw == _admin_pw { return RootMode, nil }

Re:Show HN: CMS Server written in Go (alpha) by omra on Saturday June 01, 2013 @01:47PM (#5805039)
Go does not have constant time string comparisons by default. The crypto/subtle package supplies constant time comparisons.
Re:Show HN: CMS Server written in Go (alpha) by wilsonfiifi on Saturday June 01, 2013 @03:00PM (#5805405)
Thanks for pointing that out. Will look into it