[tor-commits] [tor/master] Safe cookie authentication gets a changes file

[nickm at torproject.org]

commit 9740f067c4bed47beb63483be4f4636167a04019
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 26 14:06:27 2012 -0400

    Safe cookie authentication gets a changes file
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+  o Security Features:
+    - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
+      authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
+      running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
+      process, then that program could trick the contoller into
+      telling it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new
+      "SAFECOOKIE" authentication method uses a challenge-response
+      approach to prevent this. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193. 
+