Re: Session security with cookies

Thomas,

It's rather an axiom, at this point, that it's unsafe to trust a
client - an untrusted client (as discussed in this case) even more.

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Aaron
On Dec 5, 2007 2:27 AM, Thomas <tom_at_electric-sheep.org> wrote:
>
> > -Ensure the session times out in a reasonable amount of time
>
> Timeouts have to be enforced by the server because cookie lifetime is not
> mandatory and can be ignored or/and modified by the client.
>
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> Tom <tom_at_electric-sheep.org>
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