Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Google Webmaster Central Blog published Quick security checklist for webmasters. They encourage webmasters to “please try the following at home,” this is by no means an exhaustive list for your website’s security. The list is useful, but they recommend that you conduct more thorough research as well.

Nathan Johns said
“In recent months, there’s been a noticeable increase in the number of compromised websites around the web. One explanation is that people are resorting to hacking sites in order to distribute malware or attempt to spam search results. Regardless of the reason, it’s a great time for all of us to review helpful webmaster security tips.”

Requirements: No Requirements
Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security…
License: N/A

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aSSL is a library distributed under MIT License thats implements a technology similar to SSL without HTTPS. aSSL enables the client to negotiate a secret random 128-bit key with the server using the RSA algorithm. Once the connection has been established, the data will be sent and received using AES algorithm. aSSL is composed of some Javascript files and a server side component. A pure Javascript (ASP) server component is currently available. They will do a porting for the main web languages (PHP, Java, Perl, Python, TKL, etc.) as soon as possible once the aSSL has passed the beta phase.

Requirements: ASP Server
Demo: http://assl.sullof.com/assl/asp_example/example1.asp
License: MIT License

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