Almost. You're not storing the users' passwords on the server, but the "secret key".
Here's some actual (old) code:
my $secret_key = "BLAHBLAHBLAH";
my $session_cookie = $query->cookie('SessionID');
umask 0066;
if($session_cookie) {
my $mac;
if(($sessionid, $mac) = split("-", $session_cookie)) {
###Ok, the user has returned a cookie,
###let's make sure it's not been tampered with
+.
if($mac ne md5_hex($sessionid . md5_hex($sessi
+onid.$secret_key))) {
destroy_cookie($sessionid, "MODIFIED")
+; ###Ack. Nasty people
return;
} else {
###Other checks.
}
This way you're not storing the password, you're just making
sure the user doesn't modify the data. A reasonable golden rule is: "NEVER trust the data the user hands you".
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