Re: Design and code review requested for Django string signing / signed cookies

2010-01-06 Thread Elias Torres
On Jan 6, 10:37 am, Luke Plant <l.plant...@cantab.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 06 January 2010 04:24:15 Elias Torres wrote: > > Thanks Luke for your explanation. I think I have learned something > > here in terms of my own application security independent of > >  Dja

Re: Design and code review requested for Django string signing / signed cookies

2010-01-05 Thread Elias Torres
On Jan 5, 2:33 pm, Luke Plant <l.plant...@cantab.net> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 January 2010 16:53:17 Elias Torres wrote: > > > Simon, > > > I'm not a security expert by any means, but I really the fact that > > you're making use of HMACs in your design. I will ask a

Re: Design and code review requested for Django string signing / signed cookies

2010-01-05 Thread Elias Torres
oops.. I mean really *like*. Thanks. On Jan 5, 12:09 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Elias Torres <el...@torrez.us> wrote: > > > I'm not a security expert by any means, but I really the fact that > > you're maki

Re: Design and code review requested for Django string signing / signed cookies

2010-01-05 Thread Elias Torres
of discovering people's passwords with a dump from a Django application is really small. [1] http://benlog.com/articles/2008/06/19/dont-hash-secrets/ [2] http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/django/contrib/auth/models.py Regards, Elias Torres On Jan 4, 7:47 am, Simon Willison <