Glossary of Security Terms: Same-Origin Policy
by Mozilla ContributorsSeptember 10th, 2020
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Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The same-origin policy is a critical security mechanism that restricts how a document or script loaded from one origin can interact with a resource from another origin. It helps isolate potentially malicious documents, reducing possible attack vectors. The policy is published under the Open CC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license under the terms of the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla's "Same-origin" policy.Company Mentioned
The same-origin policy is a critical security mechanism that restricts how a document or script loaded from one origin can interact with a resource from another origin. It helps isolate potentially malicious documents, reducing possible attack vectors.
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- Block cipher mode of operation
- Certificate authority
- Challenge-response authentication
- Cipher
- Cipher suite
- Ciphertext
- CORS
- CORS-safelisted request header
- CORS-safelisted response header
- Cross-site scripting
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptographic hash function
- Cryptography
- CSP
- CSRF
- Decryption
- Digital certificate
- DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security)
- Encryption
- Forbidden header name
- Forbidden response header name
- Hash
- HMAC
- HPKP
- HSTS
- HTTPS
- Key
- MitM
- OWASP
- Preflight request
- Public-key cryptography
- Reporting directive
- Robots.txt
- Session Hijacking
- SQL Injection
- Symmetric-key cryptography
- TOFU
- Transport Layer Security (TLS)
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- Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Same-origin_policy
- Published under Open CC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license
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