On 3/21/07, S. Robert James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm concerned about the possibility of replay attacks with cookie
> sessions.  This is a standard security issue.
>

Just adding my $0.02:

I like the shared-nothing cookie store as an option, for
performance/scalability reasons. Just document the vulnerability to
replay attacks and maybe add a timestamp to limit how long the cookie
remains valid.

The nonce thing adds a lot of complexity, and if you need to hit
shared storage anyway there's just no point. As far as I'm concerned,
updating a nounce or the actual session data has similar overhead.


I'd prefer a db backed session store replacing the current default.
Ideally it would be automatically created, indexed and purged of stale
data.


Isak

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