Unless of course, you are listening into the network connection :-) Jason Sheets wrote: > > Not that I am aware of, it seems you would be better off using SSL, if > you are concerned about someone hijacking the sessions you could > generate your own session id (I generate random 80 character session ids > instead of 32) and also limit the life of the session, you could write > logic to change the session ID every n minutes which would make brute > forcing the session id even harder. > > Jason > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 11:34, Dennis Gearon wrote: > > Is there anyway for a page to save information on a user's computer which is > > accessible via java or > > javascript, but doesn't get sent with each HTML request the way a cookie is? > > > > I had this idea, patterned after kerberos: > > > > 1/ A user logs into a site via a secure link. > > 2/ A hash salt is stored on their computer and an > > initial hash is generated for the user as a Password > > to their session key. > > 3/ The user is redirected to the non secure part of the site > > and they have both the hash-pw plus session key in their document. > > 4/ Each time they access a page on our site, a javascript fires > > which generates the next sequence in the hash-pw. > > 5/ the server also generates the same new sequence and compares > > it. If the session key and the new password agree, then > > it is the user attached to the session. > > > > So, this salt needs to NOT be transmitted via the cookie so > > that it does not appear 'in the clear', which would invalidate > > it's use. > > > > Please CC me when you reply to the list, I am on digest. > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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