Why does HomeBr@nching use “cookies?
HomeBr@nching, developed by Jack Henry and Associates as NetTeller, uses “cookies” to keep track of a user’s session. When a user logs into HomeBr@nching, the website sends three “cookies” to his computer. The first two act as a laundry claim-check; they are merely sequenetially assigned numbers. The third is a large random string that allows us to verify that someone isn’t trying to impersonate a legitimate user by guessing the value of the first two “cookies.” The “cookies” are only valid for one session; each time users logs in, they receive a new set of cookies. We use the cookies to ensure that the user has entered a valid HomeBr@nching ID and PIN, and to ensure that the user’s session hasn’t timed-out. The use of “cookies” also allows us to speed up HomeBr@nching by temporarily storing some user information in our web server’s memory. Accessing the user’s information in memory is much faster than having to retrieve it from the host or from a database every time it is needed. When
