Re: Security considerations for GWT applications

2012-11-03 Thread Sebastian Rothbucher
Hi, no offense - but I'd NEVER NEVER EVER send the MD5-ed PW or store an MD5 hash in the directory. Rather, I regard it paramount to send the password as-is (through an encrypted channel) and have the directory store it WITH A SALT value. Furthermore, you should bind against the directory

Re: Security considerations for GWT applications

2012-11-03 Thread Sebastian Rothbucher
Hi, there is actually one more aspect: avoid correctly logged-in users (as others pointed out before: login on the server with a server session is required) can manipulate more data than you want them to. Using tamper data and consorts, you can see what goes back and forth via GWT-RPC.

Re: Security considerations for GWT applications

2012-10-30 Thread dhoffer
Hi Joseph, Did you post that GWT webapp running on Spring Security somewhere? I have the Spring Security books its major shortcoming is that it doesn't cover GWT at all. It would be great to have some good comprehensive examples of GWT using Spring Security. Thanks, -Dave On Saturday,

Re: Security considerations for GWT applications

2012-10-30 Thread Joseph Lust
Hoffer, I won't be posting that since it is a closed source site and sanitizing it for release is more than I have time for at the moment. However, while there are a lot of configuration files in such a setup, it is just vanilla Spring/GWT/Hibernate for which you can find example projects out

Re: Security considerations for GWT applications

2012-10-30 Thread Juan Pablo Gardella
Hi, See this sample: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-web-toolkit/fkbowz5-5do Is integrate with spring security. Juan 2012/10/30 Joseph Lust lifeofl...@gmail.com Hoffer, I won't be posting that since it is a closed source site and sanitizing it for release is

Re: Security considerations for GWT applications

2012-10-27 Thread Joseph Lust
FYI, I just setup a GWT webapp running on *Spring Security*. *Spring Security *covers much of the above and more: - Session Fixation prevention - Easy to enforce HTTPS channel filters to force parts of site to run on SSL - Facilities to persist (totally random) remember me tokens to

Re: Security considerations for GWT applications

2012-10-26 Thread Manuel Carrasco Moñino
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:38:51 PM UTC-4, Manuel Carrasco wrote: - You could compute and send the MD5 hash of the password instead of the clear one if the server is storing the password in MD5 This doesn't really work against MITM attacks. As written, the proposal substitutes a

Re: Security considerations for GWT applications

2012-10-26 Thread Jens
For a secure GWT application: - *use SSL for the entire app* *- check for SSL vulnerabilities and update your server accordingly * * * - use your app servers session id and send it as payload from server to client during login and then from client to server on each request. On the server check

Re: Security considerations for GWT applications

2012-10-25 Thread Abraham Lin
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 5:41:06 AM UTC-4, Flying-w wrote: I am investigating security considerations around the user login for a GWT application in respect of the following strategy: - User enters their id and password in a dialogue; - Client transmits the login request with

Security considerations for GWT applications

2012-10-24 Thread Flying-w
I am investigating security considerations around the user login for a GWT application in respect of the following strategy: - User enters their id and password in a dialogue; - Client transmits the login request with the above details to the server using RPC; - Server returns a

Re: Security considerations for GWT applications

2012-10-24 Thread Ed
Use SSL for Security, never send a clear text user id password over the wire. If a user navigates away from app then they should log in again. ed On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Flying-w simonjone...@googlemail.com wrote: I am investigating security considerations around the user login for a

Re: Security considerations for GWT applications

2012-10-24 Thread Manuel Carrasco Moñino
- Use Http-Only cookies so as any eventually injected js does not have access to the session cookie. - You could compute and send the MD5 hash of the password instead of the clear one if the server is storing the password in MD5 On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Ed ej19...@gmail.com wrote: Use