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Re:Core flaw of Cookies by homakov on Monday July 22, 2013 @01:50AM (#6082006)
Not true, two pretty different techniques. Forcing is about dropping HTTP cookies to https using mitm Fixation is session riding
Re:Core flaw of Cookies by ef4 on Monday July 22, 2013 @10:05AM (#6083673)
I disagree. The point in either case is to get a cookie of the attacker's choosing accepted as the session identifier for the privileged domain.

But even if we consider them separate techniques, the mitigation strategy is identical anyway.

Re:Core flaw of Cookies by homakov on Monday July 22, 2013 @10:11AM (#6083718)
Yes mitigation is identical