SecurityEngineering/2013/Q4Goals

(Also linked from Platform/2013-Q4-Goals#Security)

This quarter, every goal must have more than one person affiliated with and working on it. There is still a DRI, but nobody is working alone.

• Sandboxing
  • Outcome: Next set of steps towards a exploit-containing platform.
  • DRI: sid (+keeler +christoph)
  • Tasks:
    • [DONE] Implement: Chromium-sandbox: make it possible to compile and activate on mozilla-central - (keeler + bbondy)
    • [ON TRACK] Implement: b2g/e10s security feature tests: Get CSP tests passing in e10s with help from overholt on platform team (garrett + sid + mwobensmith)
    • [DONE] Implement: enable seccomp-bpf for linux desktop - bug 935111 (christoph)

• Roadmaps
  • Outcome: More visibility and aim for our team's projects.
  • DRI: monica (+sid +garrett +cviecco +briansmith)
  • Tasks:
    • [ON TRACK] Consult: security roadmap update (sid + product teams)
    • [ON TRACK] Consult: privacy roadmap update (monica + sid + product teams)
    • [DONE] Consult: anonymity (tor) roadmap update (sid + mikeperry)

• NetSec
  • Outcome: Massive improvement in channel security for SSL sites that want protection from decryption.
  • DRI: briansmith (+cviecco)
  • Tasks:
    • [MISSED] Land Insanity::PKIX - bug 878932 (briansmith + cviecco)
    • [DONE] Implement: TLS 1.2 enabled on nightly requires server intolerance + telemetry (cviecco + briansmith)

• Mixed Content wrap up
  • Outcome: Mixed script is blocked widely on the web in a stable way (and has no more urgent follow-ups.)
  • DRI: christoph (+tanvi)
  • Tasks:
    • [MISSED] Implement: redirect bug - bug 418354 and bug 878890
    • [DONE] Implement: don't show mixed content on http pages - bug 909920 (may require content policy api changes)
    • [DONE] Implement: missing notification - bug 915951.
    • [DONE] Implement: persistency for child tabs - bug 906190

• CSP
  • Outcome: Wider adoption of CSP when Firefox supports these features (and beginning of CSP v1.1)
  • DRI: garrett (+sid)
  • Tasks:
    • [DONE] Implement: script nonce landed behind a pref. bug 855326 (garrett + sid)
    • [ON TRACK] Implement: script hash landed behind a pref. bug 883975 (garrett + sid)
    • [DONE] Evaluate: profile CSP on desktop and B2G to develop a plan to optimize CSP by rewriting in C++ or otherwise (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924337#c26) [garrett + christoph] - bug 927493 shows speed improvements with a native implementation