Re:Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander?
by chris_wot on Monday October 15, 2012 @04:16PM
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That's not how secure session management works.
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Re:Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander?
by cheald on Monday October 15, 2012 @11:38PM
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It's plenty secure in the sense that you can't forge a session. It's not secure in the sense that the data is inaccessible if you know how to base64 decode a cookie.
If you're using cookie sessions, you should know better than to store sensitive information in the session.