To answer your direct questions: I don't know any formal definition for "escaping"; except as a part of "encoding"; -- you encode a sequence of bytes into (a...
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Mike Samuel
mikesamuel
Oct 22, 2007 4:10 am
... Ok. I think it's useful to make a distinction between the n:1 mappings and the 1:1 mappings. If you're escaping (which I defined as n:1), you have to...
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Freeman, Tim
timothy_free...
Oct 22, 2007 10:22 pm
... Okay, I'll try to say the obvious here -- although no one individual is responsible, we find ourselves in the middle of a big hacked-up pile of conventions...
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Mike Samuel
mikesamuel
Oct 22, 2007 11:15 pm
Ok. I think the time for debate has passed, but it's a slow Monday so I'll bite :) There's a few problems: (1) Documents embed other documents using a melange...
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Larry Masinter
masinter
Oct 23, 2007 3:41 pm
On standards: The benefit of HTTP and XML and HTML is not that they are well-designed protocol and syntax and language, but that there are many different and...
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Mike Samuel
mikesamuel
Oct 23, 2007 6:13 pm
... Maybe I'm being horribly unfair to protocol designers, but implementors do. An example is entities in URIs embedded in HTML. <a href="foo?bar=a&baz=b"> is...
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Alan Karp
alanhkarp
Nov 13, 2007 11:21 pm
From an article in "SOA Advisor" titled "Enterprise Web 2.0, SOA Linkage: Will lack of standards be a hindrance?" by Srinivas Padmanabhuni of InfoSys. (If you...
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Mark Miller
capsecure
Dec 2, 2007 8:08 pm
We've previously announced the Caja project <http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/> on cap-talk, e-lang, and The Caplet Group list. Since then, in order to...
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Mark Miller
capsecure
Dec 2, 2007 8:14 pm
Successful attack on ADsafe due to a Firefox bug that is fixed in the development trunk, but apparently not expected to appear in a Firefox 2.0.0.x...
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Mark S. Miller
erights@...
Dec 2, 2007 8:22 pm
... Just to be clear: The bug is apparently not expected to be fixed for any FF 2.0.0.x. -- Cheers, --MarkM...
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Bill Frantz
frantz@...
Dec 2, 2007 9:48 pm
{"Fwd: [Caja] Re: [jquery-dev] Re: [Caja] Re: [jquery-dev] Re:" removed from Subject tag for esethitic reasons.} ... One thing people building Javascript...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 3, 2007 1:17 pm
ADsafe does not allow 'call', so foo.call(null) does not pass, but it does allow foo() I think they are calling foo as with new, so it returns this...
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Mark Miller
capsecure
Dec 9, 2007 6:24 am
... Hi John, I just talked to Crock. We're all agreed that this bug is serious and are relieved that it will be fixed in an upcoming Firefox release. However,...
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Mark Miller
capsecure
Dec 9, 2007 6:46 am
... Never mind. I just ran it through JSLint, tried it, and looked at it again: (function(){ var obj = {}; obj.test = obj.valueOf; obj.valueOf = function(){...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 9, 2007 12:54 pm
... I don't understand this. What is bind in this example? When I ran it in FireFox 2.0.0.11, it reported 'obj.test.bind is not a function'....
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Mark Miller
capsecure
Dec 9, 2007 4:11 pm
... Jeez, my mistake again. I saw http://ejohn.org/apps/adsafe/valueOf.html pop up an "uh oh" alert, did a view source, saw the above text, pasted in into...
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Adam Barth
hk9565
Dec 9, 2007 5:22 pm
... This does point out how easy it is for a web site using ADsafe to accidentally give away its security by modifying the prototype of Object (and possibly...
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Mark Miller
capsecure
Dec 9, 2007 6:27 pm
On Dec 9, 2007 8:49 AM, David Hopwood ... Mostly correct, but I would not describe ADsafe as implementing Cajita. Cajita was inspired by ADsafe and grew out of...
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robertsayre2000
Jan 11, 2008 1:43 am
http://www.crockford.com/html/ "<module>; creates a sub-tree which can contain a document with a communication channel. See http://json.org/module.html for a ...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 30, 2008 1:55 am
I have added an optional adsafe parameter to the JSLINT(source, option, adsafe) function. It is an object whose keys are global variable names and values are...
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Mark Miller
capsecure
Jan 30, 2008 5:07 am
... From: Mike Samuel <mikesamuel@...> Date: Jan 29, 2008 8:15 PM Subject: [Caja] secure string interpolation in javascript To: Google Caja Discuss...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 30, 2008 3:16 pm
I am on the program committee of the second workshop on Web 2.0 Security and Privacy (http://seclab.cs.rice.edu/w2sp/2008/cfp.html). It will be held the day...
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Monty Zukowski
monty_zukowski
Jan 30, 2008 9:21 pm
... Very nice. I like the context scanning mechanism. I'll be curious to see what the fsm.txt looks like for SQL. It wasn't clear to me how the interpolator...
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Mike Samuel
mikesamuel
Jan 30, 2008 9:50 pm
... Escapers can use the runtime type of the substitution values. If the SQL escaper sees an array, then it iterates over elements, and if it sees a Date, it...
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Freeman, Tim
timothy_free...
Jan 30, 2008 10:28 pm
Seems like a good idea. As a user, I'd rather see the SQL problem solved right by having a parser that's more sophisticated than a finite state machine than to...
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Mike Samuel
mikesamuel
Jan 30, 2008 10:42 pm
... Fair enough. It's tough to implement sophisticated and efficient parsers in javascript, but I'm sure that it's worthwhile in some contexts. Perhaps if...
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Monty Zukowski
monty_zukowski
Feb 1, 2008 3:50 pm
... ... Now that ANTLR 3 has a retargetable backend, this might be a good motivation to get a JavaScript backend implemented. ActionScript, perl, Python &...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Feb 19, 2008 9:03 pm
I updated JSLint today in a step to bring more truth to this expression: JSON < ADsafe < Cajita < Caja < ES3 < Proposed ES4 ADsafe now allows all strings as...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Feb 20, 2008 11:38 pm
I relaxed the ADsafe.get(object, name) function. The only names it excludes now are the _hanging_underbar_ names. It allows all other names. It requires that...
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Kris Zyp
kriszyp
Feb 27, 2008 9:02 pm
I have been thinking about capabilities-based security and ES subsets like ADsafe and Caja, and was thinking about another subset that is intriguing to me and...
