How about just NOT changing the default setting to this less secure
option? Problem solved.

On 3/29/07, Isak Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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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