Re: View state- security

2008-04-21 Thread Scott O'Bryan
Kamal Parmar wrote: Hello People, I am pen-tester so please bear with any lack of knowledge on my part ;) I am reviewing a MyFaces web application which appears to have very large values for View State being posted back. The View State, once base64 decoded and gunzipped, measures anywhere

View state- security

2008-04-19 Thread Kamal Parmar
Hello People, I am pen-tester so please bear with any lack of knowledge on my part ;) I am reviewing a MyFaces web application which appears to have very large values for View State being posted back. The View State, once base64 decoded and gunzipped, measures anywhere between 2000 to an amazing

Re: View state- security

2008-04-19 Thread Andrew Robinson
Although technically feasible to jack the state, it is not easy. First, you have to make sure you reproduce the state in such a way that it restores correctly. There are other complications, but if you want client side state saving and are worried about hacking and spying, you could write your own

Re: View state- security

2008-04-19 Thread Glauco P. Gomes
This is currently available in Myfaces, see: http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/Secure_Your_Application Glauco P. Gomes Andrew Robinson escreveu: Although technically feasible to jack the state, it is not easy. First, you have to make sure you reproduce the state in such a way that it

Re: View state- security

2008-04-19 Thread parmaka
Thanks guys. That was very helpful. cheers K On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Glauco P. Gomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is currently available in Myfaces, see: http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/Secure_Your_Application Glauco P. Gomes Andrew Robinson escreveu: Although technically