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Secure Website Login Programming with PHP & MySQL

By Jeff Skrysak
2006-08-17

Conclusion
You should now have a somewhat complete picture of what can be done to create a secure, login based site. Most of what I have discussed refers to programming, and your code. I have not discussed the finer points of security, which I briefly mentioned at the introduction and have to do with our most human failings. Outside of the scope of this article are additional security measures such as requiring your users to choose non-obvious passwords, forcing users to change passwords every 30 to 90 days, training them not to give out their password over the phone, and so on..... I will leave all of that to another article.

Always keep in mind, security is meant to slow down an attack enough for you to capture the intruder, or fend them off and then correct the security hole. If you think your site is 100% intruder proof, think again.



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