Google Releases Web Security Book

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 1, 2009 @04:53AM from the posted-from-my-own-chair dept.

northern squirrel writes "As reported by Security Focus, Google had publicly released their 50-page Browser Security Handbook (under a CC BY license, too). To quote, the document is 'meant to provide developers, browser engineers, and information security researchers with a one-stop reference to key security properties of contemporary web browsers,' and features a comparison of security features in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and — you guessed it — Chrome. Is it a belated Christmas gift to web developers, or just a reaction to recent bad publicity?"

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Re:HTTP authentication by Zarhan · 2009-01-01 05:25 · Score: 4, Informative

There is work on that arena. Basically, when HTTPBis WG was being chartered, during the BOF discussion it was acknowledged that authentication is too big can of worms to simply be considered a "revision", thus it's going to happen in a separate WG. In November, a BOF for OAuth was held...have to see if anything comes out of it.