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

Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> Tue, 13 January 2015 09:09 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 Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Chris Hartmann <cxhartmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> Should we solve this? Is it solved already? Could use help gelling or
> junking this idea.
>
> I have a few ideas on how this could be improved/implemented.

I'd be interested to hear them. E.g. at work we started using
https://www.okta.com/ to login to a bunch of a services, including
e.g. Google services. It felt extremely phishy to give credentials to
okta.com to make use of a google.com service.


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