Re: [websec] Strict-Transport-Security and mixed-content warnings

2013-05-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/22/2013 06:52 PM, Ryan Sleevi wrote: > The view is that it's still a legitimate error for the site operator, in > that any user without HSTS protections (or with expired HSTS) is still at > risk. While HSTS may be providing protection to the user, the site itself > is still configured to serv

Re: [websec] Consensus call: Issue #57 (max-max-age)

2013-05-22 Thread Daniel Veditz
On 5/22/2013 3:29 PM, Trevor Perrin wrote: The draft discusses "Preloaded Pin Lists", which are presumably conveyed to the UA from some 3rd party (eg browser vendor). It seems reasonable for such lists to be created or kept fresh by scanning web sites. I believe Mozilla is taking this approach

Re: [websec] Consensus call: Issue #57 (max-max-age)

2013-05-22 Thread Chris Palmer
Hi all, Looks like these are the options: 1. No hard limits, but allow UAs to limit the pin time. Suggest a month 2. Set a hard limit of one month in the RFC. Longer pins are truncated. 3. No hard limits, but allow the UA to skip hard-fail if a pin hasn't been observed for some time (like a mon

Re: [websec] Strict-Transport-Security and mixed-content warnings

2013-05-22 Thread Tanvi Vyas
Firefox's Mixed Content Blocker is enabled by default in Firefox 23+. It will block Mixed Active Content, but allow Mixed Passive Content (unless the user explicitly turns it off by setting security.mixed_content.block_display_content to true). If an HSTS site includes Mixed Active Content, w

Re: [websec] Consensus call: Issue #57 (max-max-age)

2013-05-22 Thread Trevor Perrin
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Tobias Gondrom wrote: > > And maybe a question to go a step further: > Would you agree that if we would do a 30-day hard limit as you propose, > this would basically mean that all less frequent banking/paypal/... users > MUST (or a very strong SHOULD) use such a we

Re: [websec] Strict-Transport-Security and mixed-content warnings

2013-05-22 Thread Ryan Sleevi
On Wed, May 22, 2013 2:56 pm, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > hi websec folks-- > > I am wondering what people think the proper intersection is between a > web browser's mixed-content warnings and HSTS. > > For example, if https://example.net has asserted > Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=1576

Re: [websec] Consensus call: Issue #57 (max-max-age)

2013-05-22 Thread Ryan Sleevi
On Wed, May 22, 2013 2:46 pm, Tobias Gondrom wrote: > On 22/05/13 22:21, Yoav Nir wrote: > > Hi, Tobias > > > > On May 23, 2013, at 12:02 AM, Tobias Gondrom > > mailto:tobias.gond...@gondrom.org>> wrote: > > > > > > > >>> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Tobias Gondrom > >>> mailto:tobias.gond..

Re: [websec] Consensus call: Issue #57 (max-max-age)

2013-05-22 Thread Trevor Perrin
Hi Yoav, On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: > Hi Trevor > > > > The suggestion that web spiders also note pins is interesting, but it's > not mentioned in the draft at all. > I think this possibility should be mentioned. The draft discusses "Preloaded Pin Lists", which are pr

[websec] Strict-Transport-Security and mixed-content warnings

2013-05-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hi websec folks-- I am wondering what people think the proper intersection is between a web browser's mixed-content warnings and HSTS. For example, if https://example.net has asserted Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15768000 but the homepage at https://example.net/ also contains http://exam

Re: [websec] Consensus call: Issue #57 (max-max-age)

2013-05-22 Thread Tobias Gondrom
On 22/05/13 22:21, Yoav Nir wrote: > Hi, Tobias > > On May 23, 2013, at 12:02 AM, Tobias Gondrom > mailto:tobias.gond...@gondrom.org>> wrote: > > > >>> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Tobias Gondrom >>> mailto:tobias.gond...@gondrom.org>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> as mentioned before: I believe a t

Re: [websec] Consensus call: Issue #57 (max-max-age)

2013-05-22 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi, Tobias On May 23, 2013, at 12:02 AM, Tobias Gondrom mailto:tobias.gond...@gondrom.org>> wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Tobias Gondrom mailto:tobias.gond...@gondrom.org>> wrote: as mentioned before: I believe a time limit of 1 month is too short considering that some of the high

Re: [websec] Consensus call: Issue #57 (max-max-age)

2013-05-22 Thread Tobias Gondrom
Hi Trevor, hi all, thanks for the thoughts. Maybe a few comments and a question inline. On 18/05/13 18:40, Trevor Perrin wrote: > > Hi Tobias, all, > > I think Tobias gives a fair summary of the arguments against a 30-day > spec limit. Let me summarize the opposing arguments: > > > On Thu, Ma