crypting

Marty Pauley marty+belfast-pm at kasei.com
Tue Jun 11 08:05:50 CDT 2002


On Tue Jun 11 08:42:30 2002, Scott McWhirter wrote:
> The expirytime is stored serverside in the usertable. So when it does
> authen_cred() it will insert an expiry time into the usertable then
> during authen_ses_key() it will get the expiry from the user table from
> the id matching the plaintext number. It then hashes the
> idnumber:secretphrase:expiry together and compares to check for
> tainting.

That will work.

I still prefer encryption to avoid the query in authen_ses_key.

-- 
Marty
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