Paper Info
Title
Towards Improving the Deprecation Process of Web Features through Progressive Web Security
Abstract
To keep up with the continuous modernization of web applications and to facilitate their development, a large number of new features are introduced to the web platform every year. Although new web features typically undergo a security review, issues affecting the privacy and security of users could still surface at a later stage, requiring the deprecation and removal of affected APIs. Furthermore, as the web evolves, so do the expectations in terms of security and privacy, and legacy features might need to be replaced with improved alternatives. Currently, this process of deprecating and removing features is an ad-hoc effort that is largely uncoordinated between the different browser vendors. This causes a discrepancy in terms of compatibility and could eventually lead to the deterrence of the removal of an API, prolonging potential security threats. In this paper we propose a progressive security mechanism that aims to facilitate and standardize the deprecation and removal of features that pose a risk to users’ security, and the introduction of features that aim to provide additional security guarantees.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/SPW54247.2022.9833872
2022 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
deprecation,web security,browser security
Conference
2639-7862
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-6654-9644-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tom van Goethem113611.77
Wouter Joosen22898287.70