RE: Protecting posted variables

["Debasis Mohanty" <mail () hackingspirits com>]

-----Original Message-----
Rogan Dawes wrote:
> > But other than these mechanisms, there is no standard way of
encrypting/manipulating 
> > the form values before they are sent, that I know of.

Not exactly !! I am not sure of any other platforms but for ASP.NET
programmers there exists something called _VIEWSTATE_ which takes care of
most of these issues been discussed in this thread. The good part is it is
tamper proof, has support for various encryption and all this comes for very
few lines of extra code. 

To know more read - 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspnet/ht
ml/asp11222001.asp

-d



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