Could you explain why? And why it matters if the user is registered or not?

Alternatively, if the token is present and wrong and it's not a POST, reset
the token.

Thanks


On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Alex Ogier <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's too hard to enforce. It would mean that you can't show user content
> on any public page, or any page that you want to be accessible from outside
> links. For example, you couldn't show blog comments to unregistered users.
> It would be too disruptive. Modifying the format of the secret token is a
> much better idea -- you only need to obfuscate it enough to defeat the
> compression scheme, not an adversarial attacker.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Simon Blanchard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I think they nibble at it. They look at the compressed length - the
>> shorter the compressed length closer they are. But if an incorrect CSRF was
>> never reflected there would be nothing for them to nibble at. It says this
>> in the paper:  "However, we remark that requiring a valid CSRF token for
>> all requests that reflect user input would defeat the attack."
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Curtis Maloney <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> They don't try to guess the CSRF directly, AIUI.
>>>
>>> They use a form field to affect their test.
>>>
>>> The easiest solution I can see is the one mentioned in the document --
>>> instead of outputting the raw value, output SALT || (SALT ^ TOKEN) so the
>>> actual value is never in the response, but it can be retrieved by simply
>>> xoring it with the salt.  The salt is changed every request.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Curtis Maloney
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7 August 2013 16:56, simonb <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> How about requiring that if csrfmiddlewaretoken is set, no matter what
>>>> http method (GET, POST...), it is correct otherwise 403 response.
>>>>
>>>> Simon
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