[TYPO3-core] RFC: #10201: Duplicate cHash Values

Francois Suter fsuter at cobweb.ch
Fri Mar 27 14:18:38 CET 2009


Hi,

>> The issue we experience, is sometimes when cHash doesn't match, a wrong
>> page is loaded. This was happening constantly with the short hash, but
>> less so after the patch - so I guess it has to do with the security
>> check you mention?
> 
> I do not remember details about the security check :( I think it was mentioned in the Kasper's cHash tutorial.

I went through the Mysteries of cHash again and the only thing about 
security I found is when the cHash is empty. I didn't see anything 
related to the length of the cHash itself. On the contrary, I would say 
Dan's patch provides increased security.

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch


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