On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Jackmcbarn <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <
> > [email protected]
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Arlo Breault <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/181519/
> > > >
> > >
> > > To clarify, the possible solutions seem to be:
> > >
> > > 1. Unstrip the marker and then encode the content. This is a security
> > hole
> > > (T73167)
> > >
> >
> > I'd be inclined to unstrip the marker *and squash HTML to plaintext*,
> then
> > encode the plaintext...
> >
>
> I don't see how that addresses the security issue.
>

Rollback tokens in the Special:Contributions HTML would then not be
available in the squashed text that got encoded. Thus it could not be
extracted and used in the timing attack.

-- brion
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