On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:40 PM, William J. Mills <wmi...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> It is possible to implement decent security with MAC, it is also possible to

Not as specified.  See earlier posts regarding active attacks.

> screw it up.  It is far more difficult (impossible?) to implement decent
> security with cookies over HTTP.

Assuming well-behaved browsers that understand the distinction between
"secure" and non-secure cookies, and assuming that active attacks are
often no more difficult than passive attacks, what does MAC without
TLS add that cookies don't provide?

Nico
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