Securing Cookies with a MAC Address Encrypted Key Ring
Heng Wu, Weiting Chen, Zhongjie Ren · 2010
Most web services providers use cookies to personalize the customers' access to the website. A cookie contains a user's privacy and important identification which can be used to identify the user. However, cookies are not as safe as we take it for granted. There are still some potential safety hazards in cookies. For example, the contents in the cookies can be easily changed, thus it will result in some safety threats to the user or the website. This paper proposes a new cookie security policy based on a MAC address encrypted key ring. It can make the cookies have higher confidentiality and higher efficiency. It is also easy to deploy and meets the user's higher security requirements.