Re: Duplicate session IDs are *common*

2003-01-10 Thread Glenn Olander
enough as long as it is accompanied by a uniqueness guarantee. Are you saying you want to remove the uniqueness guarantee? - Glenn Eric Rescorla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Glenn Olander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 5) The strength of the PRNG is largely irrelevant As a user, I w

Re: Duplicate session IDs are *common*

2003-01-10 Thread Glenn Olander
Here's a follow-up on the bug report I submitted that started this thread. 1) We confirmed the problem is a duplicate session id. Luckily we were logging session id's. It took a lot of hunting through access logs, but we did indeed find two sessions which were started a couple of minutes apart, w

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat-4.0/catalina/src/share/org/apache/catalina/sessionManagerBase.java

2002-12-31 Thread Glenn Olander
fyi, this still isn't correct. If you can simply copy/paste the code from these messages I'm sending, that should ensure the correct code gets checked in. Here is what it should look like: String sessionId = generateSessionId(); String jvmRoute = getJvmRoute(); // @todo Mov

Re: Duplicate session IDs?

2002-12-30 Thread Glenn Olander
7;.' + jvmRoute; } } } session.setId(sessionId); return (session); Remy Maucherat wrote: Glenn Olander wrote: I can also report that I've seen this happen when the system is under load. We had a user log in and gain access to another

Re: Duplicate session IDs?

2002-12-30 Thread Glenn Olander
I can also report that I've seen this happen when the system is under load. We had a user log in and gain access to another user's session. I'm sure you can understand that makes it a very serious bug for security-sensitive applications, perhaps even deserving some kind of security alert announc