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    <p><strong>Basically, you are fine with storing whatever you want in Session.</strong> The only caveats are:</p> <ul> <li>if you are not using secured connections (like SSL), the sessionId can be sniffed and hijacked. This is of no importance because the username and pass can also be hijacked, and you are subject to "man in the middle" attacks, etc. So basically, your system is fine and provides low security without SSL.</li> <li>In the articles on PHP they mention some concerns with shared hosting and session hijacking. I'm not sure if this is true, so I've posted a question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/487889">here</a>. <strong>Edit:</strong> This concern seems to be real, so you'll have to use one of the workarounds for storing session (e.g., database) if you use PHP.</li> </ul> <p>In general, though, most of the security concerns mentioned (including XSS attacks) are not with storing stuff in Session but rather general security concerns. Storing userid -- or some encrypted form of the same -- in Session is generally quite secure. </p> <p><strong>Most importantly: if you were to use your own algorithm to generate a random cookie code for each user, that would no doubt have more security flaws (not being an expert) than the session-key generation algorithms of PHP, ASP.NET, Rails, whatever...</strong> </p> <p>I could find a more appropriate Bruce Schneier quote, but this one will do, "No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.”</p>
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