On February 20, 2003 08:13 pm, Jason Sheets wrote: > MAC addresses are used for on a LAN and not the Internet. Using a > MAC address might work for identification on a LAN BUT in most > operating systems you can easily change the effective MAC address > on the card.
Good call. I thought there was some fundemental problem I just couldn't remember enough from my networking class to put my finger on it. > It would probably be better to look for some other form of > identification like SSL certificates or a cookie with the secure > bit on so it will only be sent over an SSL connection. Yeah I'm not super concerned about security and such, this is only a personal page so something simple will do the job. I think I'll just end up hacking together my own encryption algorithm and then storing encrypted passwords in a cookie. Hehe. Security through obscurity, everyones favorite way :) Thanks, Leo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
