XAuth critiques

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Tue Jun 8 23:05:03 UTC 2010


>(2) If an eavesdropper can listen in on all your network traffic, 
>can't they see your HTTP requests to IdP and RP (and everything 
>else) directly?

Even setting aside the IP address versus sniffing request strings 
versus sniffing responses too, you've blanked out here on the idea of 
"Assume that ALL requests are protected with SSL" - it's one thing to 
be blind to anything which would contradict your favored belief, but 
when it starts to affect your logical faculty in other areas, you 
seriously need to take a step back and detach.

-Shade
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