The data is as secure as your choices in terms of programming and access. Obviously you should present as little possible sensitive data to the user, and choose secure database passwords and/or file permissions. Perhaps /tmp is not the best place to store such sessions -- choose a database or file in your home directory. If you end up using a database, ensure that it is not possible to use means of SQL injection or similar.
Of course, I am not a security expert, so to learn more, I suggest reading any book dealing with computer security, as this issue is not specific to Perl.
Good luck! :-)

~Thomas~ I believe that the source code to life is written in Perl :-)

In reply to Re: CGI::Session and sensitive data by thomas895
in thread CGI::Session and sensitive data by Anonymous Monk

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