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Re: PW validation (was: Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?)
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Date: 
Sat, 22 Apr 2000 16:37:28 GMT
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mattdm@/spamcake/mattdm.org
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Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
Aren't the contents of a cookie simply Base64-encoded?  I mean, it's a
wel-known and reversable format.

I assume it's a one-way hash of some sort. I'd guess (without looking) that
it's probably md5....

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  Re: PW validation (was: Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?)
 
(...) Aren't the contents of a cookie simply Base64-encoded? I mean, it's a wel-known and reversable format. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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