Aye Aye Sir ! You are right there. But instead of managing my sessions and then managing to expire them etc, I thought a simple scheme would be in each subsequent chained script (say logon.pl, then menu,pl then user clicks submenu.pl and so on) ->

I would grab the encoded string ecode it and get the actual userid when I pass the userid to next script I re-encode and substitute. This will even have better security as each time a new string is generated for same userid so even a session string can not be stored by malacious user
I tried it successfully using my own crypt function and decrpyt function where I changed te salt randomly. But I was not sure if this is a secure enough way (and tested) , so I would like to rely on time-tested modules like DES or MD5. Does any of these have this type of functionality?

Thanks

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Crypt::DES returns same string by learn_forever
in thread Crypt::DES returns same string by learn_forever

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