Nemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoFighting cookie theft using device bound sessionsblog.chromium.orgexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down12cross-posted to: security@programming.dev
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkFighting cookie theft using device bound sessionsblog.chromium.orgNemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square9fedilinkcross-posted to: security@programming.dev
minus-squareCaptainBasculinlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoIsn’t this what WebAuthn already does? Why introduce a new protocol when another one does the job well?
minus-squaredracs@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoI don’t think WebAuthn protects against cookie theft. WebAuthn better protects the login process. But if the result of the login process is still a session/auth cookie, that can be stolen like any other cookie.
Isn’t this what WebAuthn already does? Why introduce a new protocol when another one does the job well?
I don’t think WebAuthn protects against cookie theft. WebAuthn better protects the login process. But if the result of the login process is still a session/auth cookie, that can be stolen like any other cookie.