Re: Patch to minimize session fixation (continued)

From: Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:11:37 +0000
Subject: Re: Patch to minimize session fixation (continued)
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--- Christian Schneider <cschneid@cschneid.com> wrote: > I decided to say "If X knows the session ID of User A then he _is_ A". This isn't a good approach, but you can bring this up on php-general to discuss why. I'm sure plenty of people will be happy to discuss it. > (Side note: I use my own random/MD5-based session IDs which should be > hard to guess). Do you think it's better than the existing session ID generation code? I always trust the level of entropy provided by the native mechanism. If you think you have a better solution, maybe you can submit a patch... Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security - O'Reilly Coming Fall 2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams http://httphandbook.org/ PHP Community Site http://phpcommunity.org/

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