I am wondering what people's opinions might be about using the SHA1 hash of the user's password for one of my session cookie values; bad idea?
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Jump to Postyou mean you want to store hashes on user machine? If yes that is bad Idea. Store the hashes in Database and compare with hashes of the password user enters. Also you can think of moving to SHA2 family, particularly SHA512 as SHA1 is no longer what it used to …
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