Security
Some cookies (such as HTTP cookies) have a digital signature appended to them or are otherwise encrypted, thus hostile users or applications are unable to forge a cookie and present it to the sending application, in order to gain access to that which the hostile user is otherwise not entitled. Depending on the nature of the encryption algorithm used, users may be able to verify that a cookie is authentic.
Read more about this topic: Magic Cookie
Famous quotes containing the word security:
“The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are,—1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves.”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.”
—J. William Fulbright (b. 1905)