Re: [Full-disclosure] PDP Architect and your great book

2009-02-26 Thread Petko D. Petkov
Hi Bob, Thank you for your concerns. The truth is that I've been incredibly busy lately both in my personal and professional life and therefore I am not so active at the moment. I am also taking the time to think about new ideas and wrap up some old projects. In fact, the Agile Hacking project

Re: [Full-disclosure] OpenID. The future of authentication on the web?

2008-03-24 Thread Petko D. Petkov
Hey Paul, some valid points indeed but let me inline some of my thoughts. read on. On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On March 23, 2008 2:52:53 PM + Petko D. Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, OpenID is a very simple but rather

Re: [Full-disclosure] OpenID. The future of authentication on the web?

2008-03-24 Thread Petko D. Petkov
thinks of you as such. enjoy your sheep. On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Petko D. Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steven, I guess most 1337 hax0rs will flame you on this list. There are good security blogs you can follow and learn from instead. Full-disclosure is for rants

Re: [Full-disclosure] OpenID. The future of authentication on the web?

2008-03-24 Thread Petko D. Petkov
PROTECTED] wrote: Petko D. Petkov wrote: As I said, if you don't trust public OpenID providers, roll your own. It is very, very, very easy. You seem to miss one point, in the current online environment you are not talking about 5 or 6 id/credentials but more like 20 to 30

Re: [Full-disclosure] OpenID. The future of authentication on the web?

2008-03-24 Thread Petko D. Petkov
agree :) On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Gorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Petko D. Petkov wrote: Indeed but this can be a subsystem, a feature of the OpenID provider. For example, some OpenID providers have the feature to choose different persons depending on the usage. So

Re: [Full-disclosure] OpenID. The future of authentication on the web?

2008-03-24 Thread Petko D. Petkov
Let's put it this way, It is easy to prevent phishing attacks against OpenID on the client-side with browser extensions. In fact, I think that Firefox will make this feature a default in their upcoming versions. It could work exactly the same as the current trusted certificate authorities every

Re: [Full-disclosure] OpenID. The future of authentication on the web?

2008-03-24 Thread Petko D. Petkov
on your last comment, OpenID is exactly design for that! To give the power back to the user! On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Monday, March 24, 2008 09:13:38 + Petko D. Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, and convenience is often

Re: [Full-disclosure] OpenID. The future of authentication on the web?

2008-03-24 Thread Petko D. Petkov
was just speaking about passwords in that case, presumably people can remember their email addresses. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Petko D. Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what about usernames? you still need to keep track of your usernames since sometimes your preferred username

Re: [Full-disclosure] OpenID. The future of authentication on the web?

2008-03-24 Thread Petko D. Petkov
comments inlined On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Monday, March 24, 2008 09:13:38 + Petko D. Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, and convenience is often the enemy of security. Not always. I think complexity is the enemy

Re: [Full-disclosure] OpenID. The future of authentication on the web?

2008-03-24 Thread Petko D. Petkov
what about usernames? you still need to keep track of your usernames since sometimes your preferred username is either taken or not possible or you need to login via email or any other peculiarity the site supports. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:43 PM, John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP [EMAIL

Re: [Full-disclosure] OpenID. The future of authentication on the web?

2008-03-23 Thread Petko D. Petkov
Hi Steven, I guess most 1337 hax0rs will flame you on this list. There are good security blogs you can follow and learn from instead. Full-disclosure is for rants and bashing only! I can point you to some articles that I wrote regarding OpenID, however, let me share my thoughts quickly as that

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread Petko D. Petkov
Dear Reepex, Unfortunately, you've already lost all the respect for a larger portion of people on this mailing list as well outside of it. You have never led by example but by bashing people on what they try to accomplish. Everyone who has been in this industry/life style for long enough know

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread Petko D. Petkov
at 2:40 AM, Petko D. Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Reepex, Unfortunately, you've already lost all the respect for a larger portion of people on this mailing list as well outside of it. You have never led by example but by bashing people on what they try to accomplish. Everyone who

Re: [Full-disclosure] [full disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread Petko D. Petkov
Michael, I have no clue how it will go. However, just because no one has done it and there are too many IFs, it does not mean that we should not approach this problem. If we manage to find a way to crowdsource all the information in a timely manner, keep up-to-date with the latest and be at the

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-18 Thread Petko D. Petkov
reepex, I know how much I know and I know that you fall into the group of lamers, trolls and all other unfriendly inhabitants (you know who you are) of full-disclosure who are incapable of showing what they know and incapable of producing anything of a value so that they keep doing what they do

[Full-disclosure] Agile Hacking

2008-03-18 Thread Petko D. Petkov
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/agile-hacking/ Help us create the best hacking reference/manual/book ever made. We provide the scene, the resources and the money, and you keep the credits and the control over the eventual profits. Read on. During the next couple of months we are open for your

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-18 Thread Petko D. Petkov
well, let's see how it goes On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:19 PM, reepex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just because you call me troll doesn't mean you should ignore my questions. Who is your book aimed towards? You said this will be the ' best hacking reference/manual/book ever made' . Doesn't that

[Full-disclosure] securls.com

2008-03-12 Thread Petko D. Petkov
I would like to inform you that securls.com is back online: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger! http://www.securls.com and it has videos...and you can also have your own premium page for a small fee (that's for companies/organizations that are interested). We will keep improving the service so

[Full-disclosure] like goolag but online

2008-03-04 Thread Petko D. Petkov
cDc's goolag tool is pretty cool but here is an online alternative for those of you who are interested: http://www.gnucitizen.org/ghdb/ pdp -- http://www.gnucitizen.org http://www.gnucitizen.com GNUCITIZEN ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.

[Full-disclosure] The Router Hacking Challenge is Over!

2008-03-02 Thread Petko D. Petkov
http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/router-hacking-challenge/ The Router Hacking Challenge is Over! We've got some very interesting results which prove that routers', and in general embedded devices', security is poor. There is definitely more room for further development and we urge security