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Re: [cgiapp] enciphered-cookie-only sessions


On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Ricardo SIGNES
<suppressed> wrote:
> stores your whole session in the cookie.  It's  stored as a base64-encoded,
> Rijndael-enciphered, JSON-encoded string.  This  seemed like a swell idea for me,

I hear a lot about brute-force attacks on encryption. Also, that what
seemed like a terrific amount of brute force 5-10 years ago isn't
today. Is that a concern (if someone steals cookies)?

Mark

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