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Re: Tamper-proofing vs. encryption

by EvdB (Deacon)
on Jun 29, 2004 at 15:38 UTC ( [id://370514]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Tamper-proofing vs. encryption
in thread Is this a secure way to prevent cookie tampering

Thank you. I will look into just using Digest::EMAC instead of all the encryption. I suppose the encryption was just used to ensure that the checksum was not tampered with, which the MAC would achieve.

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