Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-21 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:14:05 + (UTC) Alexey Vatchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-01-18, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexey Vatchenko wrote: On 2008-01-18, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:24:16PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: If you

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-21 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:30:01PM +0200, Jussi Peltola wrote: Most of the replies are missing the point. You do not only want to protect the rest of your system from your browser. You also want to avoid your browser doing anything an attacker wants when he finds an exploit in it. If you

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-20 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
Well short of building yourself into a faraday cage there is not much you can do to avoid van Eck sniffing. Also while LCD's are immune, I hear that a similar technique can be applied to LCD's. I am guessing sniffing LCD's is probably an order of magnatude more difficult than CRT tho. On

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-20 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:33:30PM +0100, Han Boetes wrote: Most secure goes a long way. I run firefox on a sepperate user account. I doubt it's the most secure solution but it sure is quite a bit more secure, and I'm quite sure you really don't want to the most secure solution. :-)

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-19 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Friday 18 January 2008, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: in the end a scrubbing proxy would be a good idea if your uber paranoid. does your bank not use SSL? or do you have some scrubbing proxy that you trust enough to MITM connections to your bank? No but having a scrubbing proxy reduces

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-19 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Jona Joachim wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:47:56 +1300, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: Talking about brainfucked bank sites... My bank checks for the browser's user-agent: Firefox on win32 an Linux passes, Firefox on *BSD is denied access, unless you change the user-agent

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 08:24:27AM +0100, ropers wrote: On 19/01/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: may just be very insecure. Which is it? You can't tell without looking at the details, or asking somebody who has done so. Your specific questions to this list about Dillo et al.

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Dusty
Lynx is secure ;) There are no insecure browsers, just insecure sites. On Jan 18, 2008 4:39 PM, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexey Vatchenko wrote: On 2008-01-18, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:24:16PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: If you

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:11:47PM -0500, Steve Shockley wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that this is a trade-off). Assuming you've already decided to run X, then why not

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 03:14:05PM +, Alexey Vatchenko wrote: On 2008-01-18, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexey Vatchenko wrote: On 2008-01-18, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:24:16PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: If you want security,

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:25:41PM +1300, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: chroot ;-). See the previous threads on this list about the false sense of security with virtualization and chroots in this context. Also see the previous thread for how I'm separating things between secure, entertainment

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Tony Abernethy
Alexey Vatchenko wrote: On 2008-01-18, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:24:16PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: If you want security, get rid of X. Even if it's OpenBSD's X? The one that you need should you need to build any ports (including if you follow

Re: : most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:33:30PM +0100, Han Boetes wrote: Most secure goes a long way. I run firefox on a sepperate user account. I doubt it's the most secure solution but it sure is quite a bit more secure, and I'm quite sure you really don't want to the most secure solution. :-)

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:24:16PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: No kidding. Having X installed on a main server is a bad idea. What does this main server do? If you need a GUI on your server you should probably use Linux or Windows. If you just need a browser to view documentation on the

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Han Boetes
Most secure goes a long way. I run firefox on a sepperate user account. I doubt it's the most secure solution but it sure is quite a bit more secure, and I'm quite sure you really don't want to the most secure solution. :-) http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/firefox_for_paranoid_people # Han

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:39:57AM -0600, Tony Abernethy wrote: Alexey Vatchenko wrote: On 2008-01-18, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:24:16PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: If you want security, get rid of X. Even if it's OpenBSD's X? The one that

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:10:58PM +0200, Dusty wrote: There are no insecure browsers, just insecure sites. OK, but how do you tell a secure site from an insecure site? If a site turns out to be insecure, if the browser isn't vulnerable to the attacks that the insecure site can exploit, then

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:30:01PM +0200, Jussi Peltola wrote: Most of the replies are missing the point. You do not only want to protect the rest of your system from your browser. You also want to avoid your browser doing anything an attacker wants when he finds an exploit in it. If you

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 1/18/08, Alexey Vatchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is not in blobbyness (all drivers that come with OpenBSD are open sourced), the problem is that the userland program (X server) has access to the things that must be allowed only to kernel. and if you don't run X, it doesn't

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
dude, from what your saying, then run a browser, in chroot via ssh. To your remote X server. You may also want to rub a scrubbing proxy in that environ, (i.e dans guardian or somesuch). While a chroot is not ideal, it is a step up from running just plain ol unprivileged. And it's not like chroots

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Alexey Vatchenko
On 2008-01-18, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:24:16PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: If you want security, get rid of X. Even if it's OpenBSD's X? The one that you need should you need to build any ports (including if you follow current and need security

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:47:56 +1300, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: One other note, if your planning on doing any internet banking, your pretty much stuck with Firefox or Opera (using binary emulation). Haven't tried ie under wine on openbsd, it may work also. Why? Because a lot of the internet

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:41:18 +1300 Joel Wiramu Pauling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but to me sounds like your making a non-issue into a mole hill. Even the most limited of hardware can run decent browsers. Why you are insisting on using your access box, when you have another machine is beyond

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/19 08:47, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: One other note, if your planning on doing any internet banking, your pretty much stuck with Firefox or Opera (using binary emulation). lynx works fine for me. with some of the things that are being suggested, isn't it easier to just change bank?

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Alexey Vatchenko
On 2008-01-18, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexey Vatchenko wrote: On 2008-01-18, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:24:16PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: If you want security, get rid of X. Even if it's OpenBSD's X? The one that you need

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
Dude, you want a proxy with different user ACLs. This is not a browser thing at all. 2 firefox profiles will do the same thing, each having a different proxy user set. Hell have 2 user accounts on your entertainment box, and ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] when you want to bring up your secure account.

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Jussi Peltola
Most of the replies are missing the point. You do not only want to protect the rest of your system from your browser. You also want to avoid your browser doing anything an attacker wants when he finds an exploit in it. If you try to solve the problem with virtualization, different users or

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
One other note, if your planning on doing any internet banking, your pretty much stuck with Firefox or Opera (using binary emulation). Haven't tried ie under wine on openbsd, it may work also. Why? Because a lot of the internet banking sites are useless and while things like konqueror load them,

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread ropers
On 19/01/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the security record of popular browsers, this is the question. Is a browser with a long history of few security bugs more or less secure than a browser with a long history of many security bugs? Someone suggested that Dillo, with

most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that this is a trade-off). There is no graphical browser in base. I don't need or want this browser to do javascript or flash (I have a different box for entertainment).

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Clint Pachl
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that this is a trade-off). There is no graphical browser in base. I don't need or want this browser to do javascript or flash (I have a different

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread STeve Andre'
On Thursday 17 January 2008 03:42:38 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that this is a trade-off). There is no graphical browser in base. I don't need or want this browser to do

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Frank Bax
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that this is a trade-off). There is no graphical browser in base. I don't need or want this browser to do javascript or flash (I have a different

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Henri Salo
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:42:38 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that this is a trade-off). There is no graphical browser in base. I don't need or want this

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
what are you referring to? are we restarting the VM are more secure flame fest? On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:36:27PM -0500, Frank Bax wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Edd Barrett
On Jan 17, 2008 8:42 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that this is a trade-off). There is no graphical browser in base. I don't need or want this browser to

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread johan beisser
On Jan 17, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Frank Bax wrote: Have you considered running the browser in a virtual environment? Outside of virtualization providing snapshots, it doesn't do anything to truly improve security.

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 05:11:53PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 03:42:38 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that this is a trade-off). There is no

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:17:54 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 05:11:53PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 03:42:38 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread ropers
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:17:54 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A main server where you need a graphical browser? It can be useful for (esp. junior) sysadmins who've hooked up a monitor and keyboard to a server and are sitting in front of it to administer it, and who may not be

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Clint Pachl
Rico Secada wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:17:54 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 05:11:53PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 03:42:38 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:36:27PM -0500, Frank Bax wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that this is a trade-off). Have you considered running the browser in a virtual

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread johan beisser
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:02 PM, ropers wrote: It can be useful for (esp. junior) sysadmins who've hooked up a monitor and keyboard to a server and are sitting in front of it to administer it, and who may not be confident enough of their choices without googling and reading through a number of

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:03:07AM +0100, Rico Secada wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:17:54 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 05:11:53PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 03:42:38 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Steve Shockley
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that this is a trade-off). Assuming you've already decided to run X, then why not just run the browser on your other machine and set the display to

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:17:54PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 05:11:53PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 03:42:38 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
chroot ;-). It is a pity that the is nothing like linux vservers for openbsd as yet ;-) On 18/01/2008, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:17:54PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 05:11:53PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: On Thursday 17