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Re: [websec] Authentic inter-domain relationships. Is this a security problem? Appropriate for websec?

Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> Wed, 14 January 2015 09:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [websec] Authentic inter-domain relationships. Is this a security problem? Appropriate for websec?
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Chris Hartmann <cxhartmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> If a phisher
> sent you an email claiming to be okta.com with a link to a fake but
> believable hostname, say otka.com (see what I did there), you happen
> to click the link and are on the verge of providing your credentials,

Yeah, that's the concern.


> When yourcompany.com formed the business relationship with
> okta.com it could perhaps share a bit of digitally signed data, say
> digitally sign the url to the login page (www.okta.com/yourcompany)
> and embed that in response.

Given that the current address bar UI already has limited utility,
it's not clear to me what making it more complicated will actually
help users.


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