RE: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2001-01-02 Thread Brandon
BC: > "Forbid" was a poor choice of word. We need a method of using client-side > code that does not compromise the anonymity or security of the user. What do you suggest? ___ Freenet-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net

RE: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2001-01-02 Thread Duncan Irvine
> > > And of course browsers *could* implement this > functionality themselves. > > > > It seems risky to make the assumption that all browser code > should be > > trusted esp. given that we have no ability to audit the > code. A piece of > > firewalling code would seem more appropiate under

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2001-01-01 Thread Scott Gregory Miller
As an aside, can the installer folks have a web-shortcut placed on the windows desktop that will launch their browser pointing at FProxy. This will help with journalists and newbies who fail to read documentation. On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:10:25PM

Re: [freenet-devl] Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2001-01-01 Thread tavin
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 08:33:05PM -0800, Dale Babiy wrote: > > I agree in the short run, but in the long run, I think browsers should > > evolve to support freenet: the same way they have evolved to support > > things like HTTP, FTP, proxies, gopher, wais, HTML, etc. > > *grins* well here I run

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2001-01-01 Thread Dale Babiy
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 10:21:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:10:25PM -0800, Dale Babiy wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 08:53:25PM -0500, news wrote: > > > And of course browsers *could* implement this functionality themselves. > > > > It seems risky to make t

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2001-01-01 Thread tavin
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:10:25PM -0800, Dale Babiy wrote: > On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 08:53:25PM -0500, news wrote: > > > > And of course browsers *could* implement this functionality themselves. > > It seems risky to make the assumption that all browser code should be > trusted esp. given that

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-31 Thread Dale Babiy
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 08:53:25PM -0500, news wrote: > > And of course browsers *could* implement this functionality themselves. It seems risky to make the assumption that all browser code should be trusted esp. given that we have no ability to audit the code. A piece of firewalling code would

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-30 Thread news
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 08:21:29PM -0500, Benjamin Coates wrote: > >Is the only possible anonymity threat something that causes the browser to > >make a request over a non-freenet protocol like http? I mean, can we say > >JavaScript is OK so long as it doesn't trick the browser into making > >a n

RE: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-30 Thread Benjamin Coates
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Is the only possible anonymity threat something that causes the browser to >make a request over a non-freenet protocol like http? I mean, can we say >JavaScript is OK so long as it doesn't trick the browser into making >a non-freenet request? > >If so, you can easily pro

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-29 Thread tavin
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 09:03:45PM -0500, Benjamin Coates wrote: > >From Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >BC: > >> I just want to mention that I don't think it's realistic to just forbid > >> client-side code in Freenet; Far too many applications will need it, > >> especially since the server-side

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-29 Thread Dev Random
There's an extra carriage return in the mime type of that page. That's an error that happened during the insert... As a temporary fix, I added a "trim()" call on the mime type. Should try to find how the CR got in there in the first place. Now that page fails due to the right reason (external

RE: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-29 Thread Benjamin Coates
>From Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >BC: >> I just want to mention that I don't think it's realistic to just forbid >> client-side code in Freenet; Far too many applications will need it, >> especially since the server-side code that makes many web things possible >> isn't available on Freenet, and

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-29 Thread Mr . Bad
> "BC" == Benjamin Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BC> I just want to mention that I don't think it's realistic to BC> just forbid client-side code in Freenet; Far too many BC> applications will need it, especially since the server-side BC> code that makes many web things p

RE: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-29 Thread Brandon
BC: > I just want to mention that I don't think it's realistic to just forbid > client-side code in Freenet; Far too many applications will need it, > especially since the server-side code that makes many web things possible > isn't available on Freenet, and we can't realistically add every c

RE: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-28 Thread Benjamin Coates
>From Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Also, once date-based updates are implemented properly in FProxy, there >should be no good excuse for Javascript in-future. > >Ian. I just want to mention that I don't think it's realistic to just forbid client-side code in Freenet; Far too many applicati

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-28 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:33:53AM -0800, Dev Random wrote: > Okay, although I will prune mime types that are potential holes > (e.g. Flash can go to arbitrary URLs). Er, I am getting: Warning: Unknown mime type text/html on SSK@u1AntQcZ81Y4c2tJKd1M87cZvPoQAgE/pigdog+journal/2000-12-25/index.htm

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-28 Thread Gianni Johansson
On Thursday 28 December 2000 05:33, Dev Random wrote: > As to image/jpeg, it is already in the list, so I don't understand how you > are getting this. See SimpleFilter.java, specifically passthroughTypes. > It works for me... can you dig deeper? It works for me too. See below. > > On Wed, Dec

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-28 Thread Dev Random
Okay, although I will prune mime types that are potential holes (e.g. Flash can go to arbitrary URLs). As to image/jpeg, it is already in the list, so I don't understand how you are getting this. See SimpleFilter.java, specifically passthroughTypes. It works for me... can you dig deeper? On We

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-28 Thread Dev Random
Okay, I added a config parameter "passthroughMimeTypes" to .fproxyrc . Also added a sample fproxyrc and modified install.sh to copy it over. You can add "text/html" to the passthroughs if you want to disable the mechanism. On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:28:46PM -0600, Brandon wrote: > > > It does

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-27 Thread Mark J. Roberts
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Brandon wrote: > > It does the following: > > > > - Detects links outside of Freenet and links with embedded question mark > > - Detects JavaScript > > - Detects embedded objects/code > > > > if any of the above are detected, a warning page is displayed. The user > > can g

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-27 Thread Brandon
> It does the following: > > - Detects links outside of Freenet and links with embedded question mark > - Detects JavaScript > - Detects embedded objects/code > > if any of the above are detected, a warning page is displayed. The user > can go ahead and retrieve the page anyways. How do you t

Re: [Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-27 Thread Mark J. Roberts
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Dev Random wrote: > It does the following: > > - Detects links outside of Freenet and links with embedded question mark > - Detects JavaScript > - Detects embedded objects/code > > if any of the above are detected, a warning page is displayed. The user > can go ahead and r

[Freenet-dev] FProxy security detector checked in

2000-12-27 Thread Dev Random
It does the following: - Detects links outside of Freenet and links with embedded question mark - Detects JavaScript - Detects embedded objects/code if any of the above are detected, a warning page is displayed. The user can go ahead and retrieve the page anyways. Of course, all pages with Jav