Privacy, Security Of Cookies In HTTP Transmission

Abstract

Web application and web browsers generally use cookies to capture the data which is being transmitted in the sequent communication that provides continuity and state across HTTP connections. A cookie is a file which contains an end user's information and which sent by website (web server). Cookies allow us to get round the statelessness of the hypertext transfer protocol by storing information at the client-side. Due to highly sensitive nature of information involved in e-commerce, extra steps must be taken to make sure that information is secure. A preparatory form of communication enables us to avoid exploitation of cookies. Securing the cookies provide possible answer to the present drawback. As cookies are transferred in plain text there are high possibilities of that cookies can be manipulated. This paper proposes a new mechanism which helps to encrypt the cookies and protect them from possible threats.