{"id":6145,"date":"2018-01-19T19:35:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goofy-trucks.flywheelsites.com\/php-session-ids-are-guessable\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T19:36:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:36:14","slug":"php-session-ids-are-guessable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/php-session-ids-are-guessable\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Session IDs Are Guessable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"phpbuilder-content\">\n<div class=\"phpbuilder-meta\">\n<div class=\"\">By PHPBuilder Staff<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">on April 1, 2010<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"overflow-content\">PHP Session IDs are supposed to be random and impossible for a hacker to guess, but that&#8217;s not the case says security expert Andreas Bogk.<\/p>\n<p>\nBogk &#8220;warns that, despite recent PHP improvements, the session IDs of users who are logged into PHP applications remain guessable,&#8221; The H reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe problem is that PHP developers are seeding their random generator with a call to the &#8220;gettimeofday&#8221; function.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead the whole story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.developer.com\/daily_news\/article.php\/396686\/PHP-Session-IDs-Are-Guessable.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.developer.com\/daily_news\/article.php\/396686\/PHP-Session-IDs-Are-Guessable.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHP Session IDs are supposed to be random and impossible for a hacker to guess, but that&#8217;s not the case says security expert Andreas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6970,"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions\/6970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}