Re: Subresource Integrity and fingerprinting

Doesn't relying on CORS assume that sensitive data will never be available cross-origin?

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On 9 Jan 2014, at 3:26 pm, Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@coredump.cx> wrote:

>> What is the mitigation that you're agreeing with, Michal? Only performing
>> integrity checks on resources delivered with explicitly public cache-control
>> or CORS headers?
> 
> Well, Eduardo's take is that we should just require CORS and not dance
> around it. Maybe that would work, although it does require explicit
> cooperation of the third-party site that hosts a particular download,
> has a copy of jQuery, etc. I'd imagine this won't always be painless.
> 
> An alternative would be to unconditionally fail if integrity= is
> specified and none of the following three conditions are met:
> 
> 1) The subresource is same-origin with the requestor,
> 
> 2) The subresource is publicly cacheable by proxies (either due to
> implicit caching rules, or due to Cache-Control),
> 
> 3) There is a CORS header that explicitly permits this subresource to
> be accessed across origins.
> 
> /mz

Received on Thursday, 9 January 2014 08:14:34 UTC