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Reference 'Securing the Web'
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<p data-fill-with="logo"><a class="logo" href="https://www.w3.org/"> <img alt="W3C" height="48" src="https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/2016/logos/W3C" width="72"> </a> </p>
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<h1>Secure Contexts</h1>
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<h2 class="no-num no-toc no-ref heading settled" id="subtitle"><span class="content">Editor’s Draft, <time class="dt-updated" datetime="2016-08-20">20 August 2016</time></span></h2>
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<h2 class="no-num no-toc no-ref heading settled" id="subtitle"><span class="content">Editor’s Draft, <time class="dt-updated" datetime="2016-08-30">30 August 2016</time></span></h2>
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<dt>This version:
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<p>As the web platform is extended to enable more useful and powerful
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applications, it becomes increasingly important to ensure that the features
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which enable those applications are enabled only in contexts which meet a minimum
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security level. This document describes threat models for feature abuse on the web
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(see <a href="#threat-models">§4.1 Threat Models</a>) and outlines normative requirements which should be
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security level. As an extension of the TAG’s recommendations in <a data-link-type="biblio" href="#biblio-securing-web">[SECURING-WEB]</a>,
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this document describes threat models for feature abuse on the web (see <a href="#threat-models">§4.1 Threat Models</a>) and outlines normative requirements which should be
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incorporated into documents specifying new features (see <a href="#implementation-considerations">§7 Implementation Considerations</a>).</p>
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<p>The most obvious of the requirements discussed here is that application code
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with access to sensitive or private data be delivered confidentially over
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<dd>S. Cheshire; M. Krochmal. <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761">Special-Use Domain Names</a>. February 2013. Proposed Standard. URL: <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761</a>
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<dt id="biblio-rfc7258">[RFC7258]
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<dd>S. Farrell; H. Tschofenig. <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258">Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack</a>. May 2014. Best Current Practice. URL: <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258</a>
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<dt id="biblio-securing-web">[SECURING-WEB]
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<dd>Mark Nottingham. <a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/web-https">Securing the Web</a>. Finding. URL: <a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/web-https">https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/web-https</a>
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<dt id="biblio-service-workers">[SERVICE-WORKERS]
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<dd>Alex Russell; Jungkee Song; Jake Archibald. <a href="https://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/spec/service_worker/">Service Workers</a>. 25 June 2015. WD. URL: <a href="https://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/spec/service_worker/">https://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/spec/service_worker/</a>
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<dt id="biblio-verizon">[VERIZON]

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As the web platform is extended to enable more useful and powerful
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which enable those applications are enabled only in contexts which meet a minimum
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security level. This document describes threat models for feature abuse on the web
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(see [[#threat-models]]) and outlines normative requirements which should be
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security level. As an extension of the TAG's recommendations in [[SECURING-WEB]],
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this document describes threat models for feature abuse on the web (see
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[[#threat-models]]) and outlines normative requirements which should be
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incorporated into documents specifying new features (see
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