Actually that's not true. We should be clear that this is *not* the same thing as ViewStateUserKey (which is not enabled by default). EnableEventValidation does provide postback input related protections, but ViewStateUserKey actually ties it to the user session. Without ViewStateUserKey, you will notice the __EVENTVALIDATION nonce will be the same for any two users. With ViewStateUserKey, the value will be unique per user.
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Sutton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 3:59 PM To: Chris Weber; pdp (architect); full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk; WASC Forum; webappsec @OWASP Subject: RE: [WEB SECURITY] Preventing Cross-site Request Forgeries [ASP.NET crowd] The EnableEventValidation page directive (enabled by default since .Net 2.0) applies a nonce value for form validation and is also a strong control to prevent CSRF attacks. Michael Sutton Security Evangelist SPI Dynamics http://portal.spidynamics.com/blogs/msutton > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 6:12 PM > To: 'pdp (architect)'; full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk; 'WASC Forum'; > 'webappsec @OWASP' > Subject: RE: [WEB SECURITY] Preventing Cross-site Request Forgeries > [ASP.NET crowd] > > Nice article. > > For the ASP.NET crowd out there, the will be even more simple, one line of > code. Set the ViewStateUserKey property in your base class or page and > the > unique token protections (similar to CSRF_Guard) will be provided for you. > > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en- > us/library/system.web.ui.page.viewstateuserkey > .aspx > > This protection mechanism has been available for many years, since the > Framework 1.1 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pdp (architect) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 3:16 AM > To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk; WASC Forum; webappsec @OWASP > Subject: [WEB SECURITY] Preventing Cross-site Request Forgeries > > http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/preventing-csrf > > I briefly covered how simple it is to prevent CSRF attacks. Hope that you > find it useful. > > -- > pdp (architect) | petko d. petkov > http://www.gnucitizen.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- > -- > Join us on IRC: irc.freenode.net #webappsec > > Have a question? Search The Web Security Mailing List Archives: > http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/ > > Subscribe via RSS: > http://www.webappsec.org/rss/websecurity.rss [RSS Feed] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- > -- > Join us on IRC: irc.freenode.net #webappsec > > Have a question? Search The Web Security Mailing List Archives: > http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/ > > Subscribe via RSS: > http://www.webappsec.org/rss/websecurity.rss [RSS Feed] _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/