Richard Pospesel:
And here's a link that actually works: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/Kw99Ow0ExZFFC6FKD5CeryfVFAoAL9Z_iEVlflI0...
Thanks for collecting and sharing all the possibly ideas here. Some comments come to mind after thinking a bit about it.
1) We probably won't get that feature right in our first attempt (let's assume there is something like "right" here at all), so I would not want to spend too much time trying to fix all the rabbit holes we find while thinking about and implementing fixes. In particular, I'd suggest we try to ignore the scenario that identifiers, cookies etc. get somehow passed on in the URL bar over redirects for now. Dealing with tracking information in URLs is a tricky topic of its own and somewhat orthogonal to redirects.
2) For Tor Browser I think I am currently most interested in the "Expand First Party Double-Keying Scheme to Redirected Content" scenario, thus I'd like to look a bit closer at it. Looking over the Cons I don't see OAuth and similar authentication mechanisms being broken, is that correct? If so, great, and certainly a plus.
I think I don't understand the scenario in Con 1, that is how a user can effectively end up with two simultaneous identities depending on whether they came from https://gogle.com/ or https://google.com/. For instance, if I enter https://gogle.com, why should I end up with a different identity than coming from https://google.com? https://gogle.com is not even settings cookies, but even if it were the final response from google.com is a 200 with a Set-Cookie header (among other things). That cookie would I sent back regardless once I decide I want to log in. The same happens in the scenario where I already had been logged into Google before I think.
3) I am not sure about Con 2 yet, but another thing we can keep in mind is that we have the New Identity feature against powerful trackers/longterm tracking. If we don't find a solution to Con 2 I think pointing to that defense as a stop gap is not the worst idea. At any rate I feel not having a solution right now to that one should not stop us from experimenting.
Georg