I meant an hmac with the user supplying the key, of course. That puts you on the safe-side of db admin tampering.
On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 11:32:47 PM UTC+2, Derek wrote: > > I'd have to agree, put the user account (email, username, whatever) and > the fields all together, calculate hmac on that, and store it. If someone > changes the data, the hmac won't match and you'll see it's not valid. Of > course, an admin could just go in and modify the hmac signature after > updating the record... so you aren't protecting yourself from a malicious > administrator with the hmac case. > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
