[cosmo-dev] How unique are tickets? (more on security hole options)
Grant Baillie
grant at osafoundation.org
Wed Feb 20 16:04:43 PST 2008
One thing I was realizing as I was implementing the ticket-generating
code for the Desktop, is that it's easiest to generate the tickets for
all shares an item is part of, regardless of which server the item is
shared on.
Are ticket-ids uniqued enough that this is OK? Also, are there
security implications ("leaking" tickets to other servers, I guess) I
should worry about?
It's certainly possible to try to generate tickets for only the server
we're dealing with, although in practice instances may be shared by
different server URLs, a well-known case in point being just http: vs
https: on the Hub. So, I'm somewhat reluctant to go add a bunch of
logic that may well be broken anyway.
--Grant
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