On 03/10/2014 06:52 AM, Adam Causey wrote:
> I was curious if there is a requirement (or if it is highly 
> recommended) that clients using CAS/SSO be encrypted with an SSL 
> certificate (i.e. https).  Since CAS does the authentication piece, is 
> there still a need to require SSL on the clients?
>
> The one part of the equation that I see as a risk is someone 
> intercepting the ticket URL parameter and then posing as the client to 
> pull back the attribute XML on the validate call.  Or is the ticket 
> parameter so short-lived that this is not a concern?
>
> -Adam
>

SSL with Secure Only cookies is the only way to protect the session on 
the client. See the Cookie Monster.

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