UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? New security authentication

I noticed in the 6.0 modifictaions that a new authentication system is in use. Previously it stored username/password but now stores user_number/unique_hash.

Is there a reason for this and how could my current 5.4 system be less secure.

My original w3threads licence has expired, should I consider renewing and getting the 6.0

I run it with sessions.

Thanks,

For ~$32/year for your download privileges renewal, I can't think of a better investment

I kick myself everytime that I think about missing out on a threads license before IP bought them

The old system stored the encrypted password in the cookie and because of this it had to authenticate against this as well. So, if someone looked at the db, they could actually login with your encrypted password. Also, we will be moving to referencing everything by user number internally to make things easier for future modifications so this was one change that needed to be done for this.