[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 736-740 webui: various minor fixes

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Mon Aug 25 00:32:13 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 14:32 -0500, Endi Sukma Dewata wrote:
> 
> If for some reason we decided to generate fingerprints in the UI, in
> my opinion using WebCrypto will not pose any security problem or
> mislead users into a false sense of security because the operation is
> purely informational, it does not do any
> encryption/decryption/validation. Any fingerprint generated on the UI
> side will be discarded anyway, the server will still generate its own
> fingerprints.

It's not (only) the users I am concerned about, mostly the developers.

Simo.

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