Re: Patch to minimize session fixation (continued)
| From: | Chris Shiflett | 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
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