[tahoe-dev] Content-Security-Policy, and referrer leakage for capabilities-in-URLs

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

[repost to tahoe-dev since I sent this from the wrong address]

Content-Security-Policy is a way of allowing web servers to specify more restrictive
security policies (than the usual web defaults) that apply to all or some of the documents
they serve, mainly with the intent of limiting XSS and other injection attacks:
<https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/content-security-policy/raw-file/tip/csp-specification.dev.html>

I wrote an addition to the spec that prevents leakage of URIs in the Referer header,
and in a couple of related ways (document.referrer, window.opener, and the Origin header).
This is useful for systems that encode capabilities in URLs, such as Tahoe-LAFS,
although it isn't intended to fix all of the problems with doing that by itself.
I'd like interested people to review it before I propose it formally.

It is available at
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/attachment/ticket/127/restrict-referrer-leakage.txt

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥

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