Hi, I am designing a web interface, using perl, to log into a remote telnet/ssh server and issue specific commands (i.e. the perl script is running on a CGI server other than the telnet/ssh server that I am trying to log into). I am now using cookies to store a user's login information and the name of the host that the script will log into. However, I am looking for a secure method to encrypt those cookies. Since I do not have access to a user database on the remote ssh/telnet server, I cannot use MD5 for a hash method (I would have no way to decrypt it or compare it to a password file on the remove ssh/telnet server). So basically, any type of encryption would have to take place on the CGI server itself. Does anyone happen to know a good way to encrypt cookies that is harder to crack than simply applying a hash of some unique phrase or something? I'm not sure if I described my situation very well, but I would be very greatful for any advice on cookie encryption. Thank you very much for reading this. Joe

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