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Is there a risk when someone modifies the userId in the cookie? #158

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YogeshUmeshVaity opened this issue Dec 1, 2021 · 2 comments
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Is there a risk when someone modifies the userId in the cookie? #158

YogeshUmeshVaity opened this issue Dec 1, 2021 · 2 comments
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I'm using this package to identify the users by storing a userId in the cookies. So if someone tries to set random userIds as cookie data in their browser, will they be able to convince my server that they are a user while they actually are not?

Does this package have some sort of mechanism for dealing with this kind of risk?
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dougwilson commented Dec 1, 2021 •
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As long as you didn't set signed to false, then the user cannot change the contents without knowing the secret/keys information. That is the protection mechanism thia module provides against tampering.

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@dougwilson Thank you!

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