Storing important data in the url is not a good idea, since everyone has the data handy

So let it be in the URL- if it's encrypted, what does it matter? It's too computationally expensive to figure out quickly, and relatively safe, that is, if in fact these are not the full login credentials (infidel2122 ?). But even if they are login credentials, mixed with enforced frequent password aging, is probably "pretty good" enough.

Or do it with Crypt::OpenPGP as mentioned by edan, but Crypt::Rot13 is easy to figure out and brute force, even with (multiple) URL-encoding of the string.

In reply to Re^2: Storing encrypted data in url by hsinclai
in thread Storing encrypted data in url by infidel2112

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