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An article on securing your cookies in several ways to defeat the several vulnerabilities that cookies have
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Web;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Security.Cryptography;

namespace BulletProofCookiesArticle
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Summary description for CHelperMethods.
	/// </summary>
	public class CHelperMethods
	{
		// you should properly create your own keys and ivs
		private static byte[] key_192 = new byte[] 
			{10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10,
				10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10};

		private static byte[] iv_128= new byte[]
			{10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10,
				10, 10, 10, 10};

		public static string EncryptRijndaelManaged(string value)
		{
			if (value == "")
				return "";
																							  
			RijndaelManaged crypto = new RijndaelManaged();
			MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
			CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(ms, crypto.CreateEncryptor(key_192, iv_128), 
				CryptoStreamMode.Write);

			StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(cs);

			sw.Write(value);
			sw.Flush();
			cs.FlushFinalBlock();
			ms.Flush();

			return Convert.ToBase64String(ms.GetBuffer(), 0, (int) ms.Length);
		}

		public static string DecryptRijndaelManaged(string value)
		{
			if (value == "")
				return "";
																							  
			RijndaelManaged crypto = new RijndaelManaged();
			MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Convert.FromBase64String(value));
			CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(ms, crypto.CreateDecryptor(key_192, iv_128), 
				CryptoStreamMode.Read);

			StreamReader sw = new StreamReader(cs);

			return sw.ReadToEnd();
		}

		public static string SignAndSecureData(string value)
		{
			return SignAndSecureData(new string[] {value});
		}

		public static string SignAndSecureData(string[] values)
		{
			throw new Exception("Please set your own XML RSA Key before you can run this sample");
			string xmlKey = "";
			return SignAndSecureData(xmlKey, values);
		}

		public static string SignAndSecureData(string xmlKey, string[] values)
		{
			XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
			xmlDoc.LoadXml("<x></x>");

			for (int i = 0; i < values.Length; i++)
				_AddNode(xmlDoc, "v" + i.ToString(), values[i]);

			RSACryptoServiceProvider rsa = new RSACryptoServiceProvider();
			rsa.FromXmlString(xmlKey);

			byte[] signature = rsa.SignData(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(xmlDoc.InnerXml), 
				"SHA1");

			_AddNode(xmlDoc, "s", Convert.ToBase64String(signature, 0, signature.Length));
			return EncryptRijndaelManaged(xmlDoc.InnerXml);
		}
	
		public static bool DecryptAndVerifyData(string input, out string[] values)
		{
			throw new Exception("Please set your own XML RSA Key before you can run this sample");
			string xmlKey = "";
			return DecryptAndVerifyData(xmlKey, input, out values);
		}

		public static bool DecryptAndVerifyData(string xmlKey, string input, out string[] values)
		{
			string xml = DecryptRijndaelManaged(input);

			XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
			xmlDoc.LoadXml(xml);			

			values = null;
		
			XmlNode node = xmlDoc.GetElementsByTagName("s")[0];
			node.ParentNode.RemoveChild(node);

			// verify
			RSACryptoServiceProvider rsa = new RSACryptoServiceProvider();
			rsa.FromXmlString(xmlKey);

			byte[] signature = Convert.FromBase64String(node.InnerText);

			byte[] data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(xmlDoc.InnerXml);
			if (!rsa.VerifyData(data, "SHA1", signature))
				return false;
			
			// count values
			int count;
			for (count = 0; count < 100; count++)
			{
				if (xmlDoc.GetElementsByTagName("v" + count.ToString())[0] == null)
					break;
			}

			values = new string[count];

			for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
				values[i] = xmlDoc.GetElementsByTagName("v" + i.ToString())[0].InnerText;

			return true;
		}
	
	
		public static void SignAndSecureCookie(HttpCookie cookie, NameValueCollection serverVariables)
		{
			if (cookie.HasKeys)
				throw (new Exception("Does not support cookies with sub keys"));

			if (cookie.Expires != DateTime.MinValue) // has an expiry date
			{
				cookie.Value = SignAndSecureData(new string[] 
					{
						cookie.Value, 
						serverVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"], 
						cookie.Expires.ToString()});
			}
			else
			{
				cookie.Value = SignAndSecureData(new string[] 
					{cookie.Value, serverVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"]});
			}
		}

		public static string DecryptAndVerifyCookie(HttpCookie cookie, NameValueCollection serverVariables)
		{
			if (cookie == null)
				return null;

			string[] values;

			if (!DecryptAndVerifyData(cookie.Value, out values))
				return null;

			if (values.Length == 3) // 3 values, has an expiry date
			{
				DateTime expireDate = DateTime.Parse(values[2]);
				if (expireDate < DateTime.Now)
					return null;
			}

			if (values[1] != serverVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"])
				return null;

			return values[0];
		}

		private static void _AddNode(XmlDocument xmlDoc, string name, string content)
		{
			XmlElement elem = xmlDoc.CreateElement(name);
			XmlText text = xmlDoc.CreateTextNode(content);
			xmlDoc.DocumentElement.AppendChild(elem);
			xmlDoc.DocumentElement.LastChild.AppendChild(text);
		}
	}
}

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