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Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> Mon, 09 March 2020 22:07 UTC

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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:02:25 +1100
From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2020, at 19:51, Mike West wrote:
> https://github.com/mikewest/scheming-cookies proposes two changes:
> 
> 1. We teach cookies about schemes, and lock them to the scheme that set 
> them (just like every other web-facing storage mechanism).

Excellent!

To Willy's point about transfer, perhaps we can allow any cookies that are set on an http:// response to follow a redirect to https://  The Sec-Nonsecure-Cookie header field seems like it might not be great long term.

Tf the goal is to support temporally-constrained transfer, then binding the cookies to the redirect avoids pulling from previous state.  Also, the redirector could have just packed this information into the target URL, so it's not a new tracking vector.

Have I missed a key piece of information?  Willy, could this work in the cases you understand?

> 2. We curtail non-secure schemes' cookies' lifetime by agreeing on a 
> set of heuristics for a user's "session" on a given site, and culling 
> cookies when a site's session expires.

Also good.  The need for heuristics is unfortunate, but I appreciate that you have to do that.

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