[whatwg] URI scheme whitelisting and the case of cryptocurrencies

2015-03-07 Thread Krzysztof Jurewicz
The registerProtocolHandler method specifies a whitelist of schemes for which web applications are allowed to register themselves as possible handlers ( https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#whitelisted-scheme ). On the JQuery Standards repository there is an issue stating that “A blacklist (not a

Re: [whatwg] URI scheme whitelisting and the case of cryptocurrencies

2015-03-07 Thread Michael A. Peters
On 03/07/2015 03:40 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote: Especially crypto-currencies where even on Linux systems, the client is often not under a package management system control and may be out of date. QR codes pose the same problem but it is more difficult to trick a user into scanning a QR

Re: [whatwg] URI scheme whitelisting and the case of cryptocurrencies

2015-03-07 Thread Michael A. Peters
On 03/07/2015 11:50 AM, Krzysztof Jurewicz wrote: *snip* What are your thoughts about that? Are there any security considerations preventing the whitelist solution? Or maybe a more general one should be worked out? I do not allow bitcoin: on my servers, nor anything except for http,