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diff --git a/changes/safecookie b/changes/safecookie deleted file mode 100644 index fd7d7af2b0..0000000000 --- a/changes/safecookie +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ - 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. - |