Feature #20577
closed
Create better session identifiers and add basic validation
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Description
Current sesssion identifiers in TYPO3 are a MD5 representation of several parameters.
Due to several security requirements it might be necessary to have at least a 160bit session identifier (MD5 has only 128bit) - e.g. using SHA1 or SHA2.
Furthermore it should be ensured that a session identifier really was created by the TYPO3 system. It's not critical at all currently since a brute force attack against a 128bit value takes some time. However, the session id used in the cookie should have another hash that uses the encryption key to ensure that it really was created by the accordant TYPO3 website.
(issue imported from #M11280)
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Updated by Marcus Krause over 14 years ago
Hi Oliver!
Could you please outline what "better session identifiers" means?- Is it about "longer" SIDs?
- Is it about "more entropy" in SIDs?
Making a SID longer does not necessarily means "make them more unique"!
This patch does both; extending the SID length and adding more entropy.
Updated by Ernesto Baschny about 14 years ago
Hi Olly, could you give some feedback on this issue?
Updated by Helmut Hummel almost 14 years ago
The session identifyer creation is now in a separated method and could be changed easily.
However, Olly can you give us some feedback what your intention was creating this ticket?
Updated by Christian Kuhn almost 14 years ago
Resolved, no change required: No more details given.