- From: Mart Sõmermaa <mart.somermaa@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:11:19 +0200
- To: public-webauthn@w3.org
Received on Thursday, 21 February 2019 21:28:40 UTC
Hello! Have you considered that origin validation is not a sufficient countermeasure against man-in-the-middle attacks in case of a powerful attacker who controls responses to user's DNS requests and has a valid certificate that is trusted by the user's browser for the target host? Full details of the attack here: https://gitlab.com/mrts/webauthn-additions/wikis/Man-in-the-middle-attack-against-WebAuthn-by-a-powerful-attacker I have a proposal how to mitigate this, but I would like to hear your thoughts regarding this first. Thanks in advance for looking into this, Mart Sõmermaa
Received on Thursday, 21 February 2019 21:28:40 UTC