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security issues in a login system

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:30 am
by nitin.garg
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

Re: security issues in a login system

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:48 am
by timWebUK

Re: security issues in a login system

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:18 pm
by daedalus__
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

Re: security issues in a login system

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:18 pm
by daedalus__
p.s. use sha or whirlpool or something not md5