Not that I'd ever think storing important information in a cookie was a
good idea any way....

But, hashing the password and encrypting the string could be a way...



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is probably better to hash / encrypt the whole string rather than this

user1={Hash of
 > password},user2={Hash of password}

or hash the values and encrypt the string even...

because it gives away more information about how your page works (ie. 
variable names)



David Harris wrote:
> Another way to protect the data could be to Hash it.
> This is a very effective way of protecting information, as you get the

> same result every time you Hash a given value, but it is impossible to

> reverse.
> 
> Your cookie would contain something like "user1={Hash of 
> password},user2={Hash of password}"
> 
> David
> 
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kym 
> Kovan
> Sent: Friday, 8 July 2005 12:26 p.m.
> To: CFAussie Mailing List
> Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Cookies
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>Is it possible to store several variables within one cookie e.g. have
>>a cookie called userIDs and have userID_1 = password1, userid_2 = 
>>password2, userid_3 = password3 all stored within this one cookie.  If
> 
> 
>>this is possible, how would I go about accessing, say userID_2 from
>>that one main cookie.
>>
>>The reason I ask this is that my application uses several cookies and
>>I've just found out that IE will only let you stored 20 cookies per 
>>site.
> 
> 
> Like the others that have responded I ponder over what it is you are
> actually doing but to answer the question in general what you need to
do
> 
> is put all of the info you need to store in an array or structure and
> then make the whole thing into a WDDX packet, which is a string and so

> can be put into a cookie.
> 
> 
>>Neil H
>>UK (not London thankfully!)
> 
> 
> All the best over there.....
> 
> 
> Kym K
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