Improve cookie authentication tokens#805
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…factor-bounded HMAC-SHA256 tokens
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Replace the token generation in CookieAuthenticator with a new token format. The previous token format had weaknesses that could be used to create an authentication bypass if encrypted cookies were not used.
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legacyTokensoption provides backwards compatibility for existing tokens, and gives application developers a path to disable legacy token support, which will become the default in a future minor release.Thanks to Gilles Bedel for reporting this issue through the security mailing list.