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Building Your Own HMAC-Signed Double-Submit CSRF

  • CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) is a security vulnerability where an attacker tricks an authenticated user to submit malicious requests in your web application.
  • Two common CSRF protection patterns include Synchronizer-Token and Double-Submit Cookie, with the former being stateful and the latter being stateless.
  • The HMAC-signed double-submit CSRF pattern is a stateless, purely functional design that involves functions like generateRawToken, signToken, bundleToken, and unbundleToken to ensure secure token handling.
  • By implementing this pattern in frameworks like Express and front-end technologies like React/Vue/Angular, developers can enhance security without relying on deprecated packages.

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