[aur-general] Securing the AUR website

[Pierre Schmitz]

On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 13:13:06 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 01:02:03PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> Am 05.08.2011 23:54, schrieb Lukas Fleischer:
>> > [1] http://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git/commit/?id=1e7b9d57
>> > [2] http://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git/commit/?id=5ea9fc19
>> > [3] http://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git/commit/?id=973e4f85
>> > [4] http://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git/commit/?id=89721137
>>
>> Those commits are nothing but a charade. The very least you must do is this:
>>
>> 1) ALWAYS force a redirect to https on the AUR login page, never allow
>> the login to be submitted unencrypted.
> 
> Thought about that. The problem is that there currently isn't a separate
> login page. Maybe removing the overall login form and creating a
> separate page for that will make things easier.

That was one of my arguments: Using https everywhere is plain simple to
implement and you don't have to worry about any holes in your
implementation; e.g. if you forgot to secure on form.
 
>> 2) Ensure that the cookie is never sent over http, only over https.
> 
> We discussed that before, see the other replies. This will be
> implemented.

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre