[Zope] CoreSessionTracking: Brute-Forcing Web Application Session IDs

Lennart Regebro lennart@regebro.nu
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:34:59 +0100


From: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com>
> Relying on IP addresses to encrypt communication of a session id is
> problematic.  It's almost impossible to rely on a visitor's IP address
> being the same from request to request in the face of proxy server
> banks like the ones AOL uses.

And they can be spoofed too.