FYI, hashing something doesnt mean that it cant be extracted, why just the
other day my little 2Ghz workstation extracted a 5 character password from a
hash in about 5 minutes...

-----Original Message-----
From: Snake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 29 November 2005 09:43
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: pseudo-memory leak


Normally you would HASH the data so it cannot be extracted and used or
changed.

-----Original Message-----
From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 November 2005 23:40
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: pseudo-memory leak

Cookies are not very secure now, are they?  Lets say I was going to let the
user be logged in, and I wanted that to persist... So I would do..

Client.userId=123456

Now, the user has no way to change that... Now, lets say I store it in the
cookie...

<Cfcookie name="userId" value="123456">

Now, the user can examine their cookies and know their userid.  Worse, they
can change the userid, and be logged in as a different user.

Russ

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Guill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 2:04 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: pseudo-memory leak

I have never really found a need for client variables.  What benefit do they
really offer?  The only time I could see using them is when you had
something that you might think about storing in a cookie.  I rarely come
across a need like that where I dont really want a cookie,
and if I do I usually just store it in the session.   Am I missing
something there?

On 11/28/05, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you still running another server on BD?  How is BD handling this
issue?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 1:38 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: pseudo-memory leak
>
> I've written up my thoughts on what looks like the problem that the
> House of Fusion server was facing for the last few weeks. It's a
> problem that probably affects others but I'm not going to comment on
> how wide spread it is until the full write-up on Fusion Authority.
> These are just my notes and thoughts.
> http://www.blogoffusion.com/index.cfm/2005/11/28/pseudomemory-leak
>
>
>
>







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