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[nycphp-talk] NEW PHundamentals Question

Jeff Siegel jsiegel1 at optonline.net
Wed Feb 11 05:10:25 EST 2004


What do you do on the "receiving" end, so to speak, to verify that the 
key you receive is the one that you generated?

Jeff

jon baer wrote:

> should have mentioned this, but the method to generate "priv_key" was:
> 
> $priv_key = md5(uniqid(rand(), true));
> 
> which i find to be the best secure method ...
> 
> - jon
> 
> 
>>Any reason to choose one over the other?
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>jon baer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>the last method was session hashing for the page to create a unique
> 
> entry
> 
>>>token and then hiding it ...
>>>
>>><input type="hidden" name="priv_key" value="32-bit/md5">
> 
> 
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