dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header

Reverse engineering and generation toolkit for Chrome's private x-browser-validation header, used for integrity.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2025-07-11 · latest 2025-10-21

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…authenticates your browser via the Chrome validation header [0]. Remote attestation, anyone? [0]: https://github.com/dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header
comment by bayindirh · 2025-10-21 · in Optical diffraction patterns made with a MOPA laser engraving machine [video]
…X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527739 [2] https://github.com/dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header
comment by molticrystal · 2025-09-19 · in The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press
…each installation? I'm not sure how you got that impression. It's generated from fixed constants. https://github.com/dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header?...
comment by gruez · 2025-07-13 · in Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered
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story by dsekz · 2025-07-11 · 0 comments
…and figured out how the x-browser-validation header is generated. Full write up and PoC code here: https://github.com/dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header Why do you think Chrome bothers with this extra headers. Anti-spoofing, bot…
comment by dsekz · 2025-07-11 · in Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered
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Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered
story by dsekz · 2025-07-11 · 129 comments