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Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Particip ation

• To: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Subject: Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Particip ation
• From: jcowan@r...
• Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:50:31 -0500
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Rich Salz scripsit:

> Good security requires state.  

I don't understand this.  _Efficient_ security may require state, but
using a distinct and unpredictable session key for every stateless
transaction is surely entirely secure.

-- 
The man that wanders far                        jcowan@r...
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        --first line of a non-existent poem by:         John Cowan

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