On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:33 AM, John Abd-El-Malek<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm hesitant to say because I don't want Vijay to treat this as advice
>> on the "right" way to determine which page included his plug-in.  The
>> approach of trying to read the document's location via JavaScript is
>> fundamentally insecure.
>
> I think if we tell someone not to do something because it's insecure, we
> need to at least tell them about the most secure way we know about, even if
> it's not perfect.  IMO unless Vijay's plugin's is on a large number of
> machines, it won't be a an attractive target for attackers.

I do know a secure way to do this, but it's extremely complex.  I
don't think it would be responsible for me to try to explain it in
this thread because I'd probably screw up the explanation.  I should
document it carefully sometime, but that's not high on my list of
priorities.

Adam

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