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The recommended best practice for modern CSP policies relies on hashes, nonces, and 'strict-dynamic'. Unfortunately, these features conflict with modern SPAs. This article proposes three concrete strategies to deploy secure CSP policies for SPAs. The first relies on a simple policy allowing 'self', which is acceptable under certain circumstances. The second strategy enables CSP hashes by rewriting the main page to use a script loader. The third strategy inserts nonces into a dynamically served main page.
11 April 2022 Security Policies Browser Security, Content Security Policy (CSP), XSS
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Dr. Philippe De Ryck
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