Re: keeping credit card info in session

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At 8:05 AM -0400 4/10/07, Eric Butera wrote:
Did you know sessions are just plain text files sitting on the
webserver in most cases?  So by putting a credit card in the session
it is actually just cleartext for people to read.

Yes, all files reside somewhere.

Session files reside on the server and are as secure as the server environment. If someone breaches the server environment, then all data could exposed and is an excellent reason why not to store highly sensitive data there.

Cheers,

tedd
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