security issues in a login system

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nitin.garg
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security issues in a login system

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I am building a web application from scratch that has registration and login functionality.
Apart from encryption of password in database, what are other security issues that i have to worry about?? Thank you
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there are many articles on this subject across the web.

the IBM website has one i thought was good for beginners.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opens ... index.html
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p.s. use sha or whirlpool or something not md5
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