full-disclosure - defense against session hijacking

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Message-ID: <1069167009.3073.10.camel@moon.kosmos>
From: bf at open-medium.com (Bartlomiej Frackiewicz)
Subject: defense against session hijacking

Hi,

Am Mon, 2003-11-17 um 22.16 schrieb Thomas M. Duffey:

> method to protect against such an attack?  It's not perfect but should
> significantly increase the difficulty of such an attack with little or
> no annoying side effects for the legitimate user.  Would it be useful
> to extend the session modules of the common Web scripting languages
> (e.g. PHP) to enable an IP address check by default?

why you don't force session handling with cookies and set session
lifetime to 20mins (or so)?

Bart