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PHP and secure cookies

Drakkon

Drakkon

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Server I am using isn't allowing session variables so I'm stuck to using cookies. In the past just used session to store username/id's but now with cookies I would need to encrypt those to a level that makes them somewhat 'secure'.

Anyone have any info on this sort of thing of something that will work and go rather fast (i.e. not have to search a DB each time the user accesses a page to authenticate the cookie)?
 
nothing wrong with a query to pull user data using a couple unique hashes on every page

make two hashes using user data that will never change (id, insert date, etc) + a unique unknown string (like md5(userid.'sPHincterR1ngS')

store them in your user table and index both columns

the query on every page checking for those cookie values should be really fast
 
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