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Notable PHP package: PHP Secure Cookie

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One way that can be used by hackers with malicious intentions is to somehow alter the values of cookies that are served by Web sites by spoofing values that make Web applications behave in ways that they were not intended.

This class can help avoiding that problem by storing cookie values that have an additional verification hash, so the class can also detect cookie alterations so applications can ignored spoofed cookie values.

Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.




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The package PHP Secure Cookie is one of the few PHP packages that was considered notable recently because it does something that is worth paying attention.

The basic purpose is: Store cookies allowing to detect unwanted changes

Here follows in more detail what it does:

This class can store cookies allowing to detect unwanted changes.

It can set cookie values with a hash value that is computed using a secret salt value.

The class can also retrieve cookies verifying if the current value comes with a hash that is correct giving the secret salt.

Invalid cookies that may have been forged by attackers are discarded.

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