Extending the Same Origin Policy with Origin Attributes

Tanvi Vyas, Andrea Marchesini, Christoph Kerschbaumer

2017

Abstract

: The Same Origin Policy (SOP) builds the foundation of the current web security model. As the web evolves, numerous new specifications propose extensions to the SOP in order to improve site security or improve user privacy. Site operators benefit from an extension to the SOP because it allows sites to partition their physical origin space into many different contexts, each representing their own abstract origin. Users benefit from an extension to the SOP because it allows users to separate user data for privacy purposes and enables richer browsing experiences. Implementing any of these new features requires tremendous engineering effort for browser vendors and entails the risk of introducing new privacy concerning vulnerabilities for end users. Instead of spending considerable engineering effort to patch the browser for every new specification that proposes to extend the SOP, we re-design a web browsers architecture and build Origin Attributes directly into a browsers rendering engine. Our implementation allows any specification or web technology to integrate into Origin Attributes with minimal engineering effort and reduces the risk of jeopardizing an end user’s security or privacy.

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Vyas T., Marchesini A. and Kerschbaumer C. (2017). Extending the Same Origin Policy with Origin Attributes . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-209-7, pages 464-473. DOI: 10.5220/0006210404640473


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@conference{icissp17,
author={Tanvi Vyas and Andrea Marchesini and Christoph Kerschbaumer},
title={Extending the Same Origin Policy with Origin Attributes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2017},
pages={464-473},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006210404640473},
isbn={978-989-758-209-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - Extending the Same Origin Policy with Origin Attributes
SN - 978-989-758-209-7
AU - Vyas T.
AU - Marchesini A.
AU - Kerschbaumer C.
PY - 2017
SP - 464
EP - 473
DO - 10.5220/0006210404640473