Re: Advice with encrypting+storing sensitive data
| From: | bahwi | Date: | Thu, 05 Dec 2002 23:45:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Advice with encrypting+storing sensitive data | ||
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Sorry, it was late at night. I'm glad you have the SSL and everything else already taken care of.
What I meant was for you to build your own session system, so that it is secure, instead of using PHP's built in session system. Someone once said that it has a 1% chance of cleaning up the sessions, and that would be the secure data(the passphrase, even if encrypted) on the system. If you build your own, you can change that 1%. There may be another way. Also, if you build it yourself, you will understand what happens exactly and will be able to hide the data perhaps a bit more than the regular sessions.
I hope this makes more sense. If not, tell me and I'll try to explain it again. Sorry! =)
Robert Mena wrote:
I do not think I understood your ideia :The next best thing is to store it in session variables, but build your own system perhaps, andyes, encrypt it lightly with some system and asystem passphrase --Joseph Guhlin http://www.josephguhlin.com/ Web Programmer / Unix Consultant / PHP Programmer