counter and password

[keizersoz]

Hello all,

Two questions.
1)I'm collecting password and login from user. I was thinking how I could keep track of this information. With a cookie?

2) How do I make a counter that each time that my site is visited the counter increases with one?

thanks to all,
D.T.

 

[BoulderBum]

1. Best not to store passwords in a cookie. It's a security risk. If you must, encrypt the cookie, or better yet, store some calculated value you can check against a persistant data store (maybe by storing some random text derived with the use of a strong random number generator like RNGCryptoServiceProvider in the System.Security.Cryptoraphy namespace).

2. You can have a value in a database or something and have a sproc increment the value with each logon.