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What are Cookies and how secure are they really? Although cookies have received a great deal of media hype, many people still aren't sure what cookies are. Cookies are simply a safe and convenient method of identifying and storing information on a users computer. Traditionally user information is stored in databases which must use username/password combinations to identify the user. After a user inputs the proper information the appropriate record is located. This isn't very secure at all! A seasoned programmer can easily write a program to guess user/password combinations. If someone manages to get the root username and password they can access every record in the database. If someone finds out your username and password they can access your records. Many databases address this problem by requiring other info as well, such as requiring certain machine names or a specific network address. Cookies solve many of these problems in addition to making things a little easier on the programer. To set a cookie the programer simply passes the data to be saved as a named cookie in the header of an HTML document. Other specifications can be set as well such as what URLs have access to read the cookie. by default only the URL that created the cookie can read it. More security can be added by requiring that the page requesting the cookie is running under a SSL (Secure Socket Layer). Additional security can still be added by encrypting the data before it becomes a cookie which has become standard practice. All of this makes it practically impossible for another programmer to steal cookies that do not belong to them. Another big security factor is that with cookies there is no centralized database of information. Instead the information is on many computers each containing its own personal data. This means that for someone to steel your info, they must break into your computer, not some server who knows where and how protected. To get the information later the programmer simply ask for the cookie by name. Cookies make it easy to save, identify, and protect user information on the web. We hope this information helps you understand what cookies are really all about. | |
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