Ruby on Rails Sunday, April 7, 2019

Thanks for taking the time to write in!

I have already perused resources that you have linked before writing this post. I was looking for more advanced material, hence decided to write to here.

All the best!


You can get help from here:  https://www.railstutorial.org/book
In this book, the author implements authentication without using a package.

Also Devise which is the most popular authentication package for Rails recommends this way to beginners: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise#starting-with-rails (You can also get help from the links in this link.)

0x01 <mansur.m...@gmail.com>, 5 Nis 2019 Cum, 13:17 tarihinde şunu yazdı:
I decided to hand-roll the authentication for my rails app and wonder what are some gotchas I should know about? I have read the rails security guide/owasp and skimmed through the Sorcery codebase. I will be using the builtin has_secure_password and has_secure_token

I am aware of the session fixation attacks, so in order to prevent them, I reset the session every time user logs in. Also, password reset tokens have very short expiry time and can be used only once (tokens aren't hashed though, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5033266). I have also read about timing attacks, but not sure whether it is a material thing to worry about (i.e. leaking info about the system)

Assume all usual suspects are covered: TLS, HSTS, strict CSP, CSRF tokens, samesite cookies (lax) with "__Host-" prefix + secure/httponly flag, security headers, encrypted DB at rest, password hashing with bcrypt with high number of iterations.

P.S. I know that there are several gems that provide auth functionality, but i still want to roll it myself.

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