NL_Rosko Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 i have seen several sites where the hidden input field in an form is encrypted. can someone explain what the specific use of that is ? i'm not quit sure what the meaning is and/or it is usefull for security. if this improves overall form security i think i will use but only if meaningfull Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 It is probably not an encrypted value, but a unique identifier to help insure that a browser has visited your form page and has submitted all the fields present without replacing the hidden field with spam content. or, if you had no choice but to pass a sensitive piece of data through a form, then sending it as an encrypted value would be your choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NL_Rosko Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 It is probably not an encrypted value, but a unique identifier to help insure that a browser has visited your form page and has submitted all the fields present without replacing the hidden field with spam content. or, if you had no choice but to pass a sensitive piece of data through a form, then sending it as an encrypted value would be your choice. so giving it an long Unique identifier only makes sure that no spam content gets into the hidden field ? what could be the use of that for spammers or hackers ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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