RE: Nonces/hashes in source expressions.

I seem to recall that Tomcat uses the ';' to do URL rewriting for session management.  Not a secure practice, but certainly popular in the 90's.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hill, Brad [mailto:bhill@paypal-inc.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 10:39 AM
> To: Mike West
> Cc: dveditz@mozilla.com; public-webappsec@w3.org; Adam Barth
> Subject: RE: Nonces/hashes in source expressions.
> 
> Eww.. yes.   But that does point out a potential problem more generally in CSP:
> 
> According to RFC3986 section 2.2, ';' is a reserved character as a
> subcomponent delimiter.
> 
> Is this going to bite us elsewhere?
> 
> :(
> 
> -Brad Hill
> 
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> From: Mike West [mailto:mkwst@google.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 10:35 AM
> To: Hill, Brad
> Cc: dveditz@mozilla.com; public-webappsec@w3.org; Adam Barth
> Subject: RE: Nonces/hashes in source expressions.
> 
> One more observation: we can currently safely assume that ';' separates
> directives. We could no longer make that assumption with this format, which
> would make parsing slightly more complicated.
> -mike
> On Mar 18, 2013 5:31 PM, "Mike West" <mkwst@google.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the link, it's very informative. The only reservation I have is that it
> seems to imply a 1:1 relationship between the URL and the resource being
> described (modulo collisions). Nonces are meant to collide, probably multiple
> times on a single page.
> That said, I don't feel strongly about the format. I'd be happy to adopt that
> format wholesale, assuming the general idea (which, the more I think about,
> the more strongly I favor) is acceptable.
> -mike
> On Mar 18, 2013 5:19 PM, "Hill, Brad" <bhill@paypal-inc.com> wrote:
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> 
> I like it.
> 
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> 
> <hat type="chair">
> 
> This draft is relevant to consider vs. inventing a new identifier syntax, though it
> is less compact than what you suggest:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-farrell-decade-ni-10
> 
> </hat>
> 
> Brad Hill
> 
> -------------------------
> From: Mike West [mailto:mkwst@google.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 10:04 AM
> To: public-webappsec@w3.org; dveditz@mozilla.com; Adam Barth
> Subject: Nonces/hashes in source expressions.
> 
> Before I copy/paste a bunch of text to stub out a 'style-nonce' directive for CSP
> 1.1, I'd like to run something by you lovely folks that I think we've talked about
> once or twice on the calls. It seems like it could reduce repetition and confusion
> if we fold nonces or hashes into the existing directives as another type of
> source expression.
> 
> As a strawman, how would you feel about rewriting 'script-nonce ABCDEFG' as
> 'script-src nonce:ABCDEFG'? This would make an "or" relationship with 'script-
> src' clear on the one hand, and make room for something like 'script-src
> sha1:...' on the other. I think it would simplify the structure in a nice way, and
> seems more comprehensible and reusable in general.
> 
> I'm sure others of you will have ideas about syntax (perhaps it's a bad idea to
> replicate scheme-like structures... maybe '#' would be a better separator, since
> it's sometimes read as "hash" anyway), but I'm hoping the general idea is
> reasonable.
> 
> 
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