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Chrome Sync

Disclaimer: Hi. I’m an engineer on the Edge browser now, but worked on Chrome Security for a bit over two years. I speak for no one but myself, and I share no internal or confidential information in this post. Update: The Chrome team announced upcoming changes based on user-feedback. This weekend, there were a bunchContinue reading “Chrome Sync”

Google Chrome–Two(ish) Years In

My first year (2016) on Chrome was both exciting and challenging. Beyond the expected firehose of new things to learn, and foreseen challenges (a second son!), there were unforeseen challenges, like working as a SWE instead of a Developer Advocate, and a long illness. Overall, my second year (2017) on Chrome was a bit smoother– IContinue reading “Google Chrome–Two(ish) Years In”

SSLVersionMin Policy returns to Chrome 66

Chrome 66, releasing to stable this week, again supports the SSLVersionMin policy that enables administrators to control the minimum version of TLS that Chrome is willing to negotiate with a server. If this policy is in effect and configured to permit, say, only TLS/1.2+ connections, attempting to connect to a site that only supports TLS/1.0Continue reading “SSLVersionMin Policy returns to Chrome 66”

Stealing your own password is not a vulnerability

By far, the most commonly-reported “vulnerability” reported to the Chrome Vulnerability Rewards program boils down to “I can steal my own password.” Despite having its very own FAQ entry, this gets reported to the VRP at varying levels of breathlessness, sometimes multiple times per day. You can see this “attack” in action: Yes, it’s true,Continue reading “Stealing your own password is not a vulnerability”

Chrome 59 on Mac and TeletexString Fields

Update: This change ended up getting backed out, after it was discovered that it impacted smartcard authentication. Thanks for self-hosting Chrome Dev builds, IT teams! A change quietly went into Chrome 59 that may impact your certificates if they contain non-ASCII characters in a TeletexString field. Specifically, these certificates will fail to validate on Mac, resulting inContinue reading “Chrome 59 on Mac and TeletexString Fields”