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I'm a senior software developer for (company internal) web applications at Zalando, but not a security specialist in any means.
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I'm a senior software developer for (company internal) web applications at [https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/ Zalando], but not a security specialist in any way.
  
I was moderator for Cryptography Stack Exchange for almost 4 years (Aug 2011 – June 2015), picking up some cryptography knowledge then.
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[https://crypto.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80/moderator-pro-tem-announcement I was moderator for Cryptography Stack Exchange] for almost 4 years (Aug 2011 – June 2015), picking up some cryptography knowledge then.
(https://crypto.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80/moderator-pro-tem-announcement)
 
  
I just wanted to correct some mistakes in the website I noted, not write a full biography here.
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For example, the Java class name validation regex in https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Validation_Regex_Repository is not just vulnerable to regex DOS attacks (as noted on https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Regular_expression_Denial_of_Service_-_ReDoS#Examples and in Wikipedia), but also simply wrong, and fixing the wrongness (escaping the dot) also fixes the evilness of the regex.
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I created this account as I wanted to correct some mistakes in the website I noted, not write a full biography here. For example, the Java class name validation regex in [[OWASP Validation Regex Repository]] is not just vulnerable to RegEx DOS attacks (as noted on [[Regular expression Denial of Service - ReDoS#Examples]] and in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReDoS Wikipedia's ReDoS article]), but also simply wrong, and fixing the wrongness (escaping the dot) also fixes the evilness of the RegEx.

Latest revision as of 21:25, 14 March 2018

I'm a senior software developer for (company internal) web applications at Zalando, but not a security specialist in any way.

I was moderator for Cryptography Stack Exchange for almost 4 years (Aug 2011 – June 2015), picking up some cryptography knowledge then.


I created this account as I wanted to correct some mistakes in the website I noted, not write a full biography here. For example, the Java class name validation regex in OWASP Validation Regex Repository is not just vulnerable to RegEx DOS attacks (as noted on Regular expression Denial of Service - ReDoS#Examples and in Wikipedia's ReDoS article), but also simply wrong, and fixing the wrongness (escaping the dot) also fixes the evilness of the RegEx.