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dubdub
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Apr 24, 2012

Cookie encryption variability

Hi all,     This may be a very stupid question... I am encrypting a cookie with a static name and value, but see in the logs that the encrypted value changes with each session. If I am using t...
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hooleylist
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Apr 25, 2012
Hi Jen,

 

 

The HTTP::cookie encrypt function does use a salt. So the cipher text should be different for each encryption iteration even with the same plaintext input.

 

 

Aaron