[nycphp-talk] security, sessions, and encryption
Aaron Fischer
agfische at email.smith.edu
Tue Mar 16 09:39:43 EST 2004
Thanks Jon, I'll check those out. I can work with Windows if I have
to, but... do you happen to know of a good one that will run on Mac OS
X?
-Aaron
On Mar 16, 2004, at 9:05 AM, jon baer wrote:
>> started learning this stuff now! Like, one question I have is, why
>> encrypt? What am I preventing from happening?
>
> the best lesson you can give yourself is by downloading and firing up
> a free
> packet analysis tool like Ethereal (www.ethereal.com) or my favorite
> Packetyzer (http://www.networkchemistry.com/products/packetyzer/) and
> watch
> what really happens between your client/browers and
> server/apache/php/mysql,
> if somewhere along thoses lines you capture your own application
> password it
> would be wise to think about starting to encrypt ...
>
> - jon
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