Windows Cookie Security / Password Encryption

Hi, a program i use often for recoving customers passwords for them is revealer (this only works in windows 95/98) so for windows xp/2000 i use cain, on playing with this program i realised that when i let it search my computer it found all the different passwords and usernames for all the places that i log into on the net, i.e. bit-tech, and other boards which have the "remember me" box.

What i want to know is there any way to increase the security / encryption used of the cookies so that passwords arent as easily viewed?

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Cookies aren't secure. Any encryption is done by the web site (maybe there's some web browser that encrypts cookie?). If your really concerned about your bit-tech password, disable cookies or only allow session cookies

 

i know cookies arent secure, but i was wondering was there a way to make them secure ? I dont wana hafta login for each session tho

 

tbh any decent website should not store your password as plain text in a cookie, they should be md5 hashed, or some sites just cookie your id client side rather than a pass.

(md5 hashes are not decryptable as there are many solutions to the encryption, if my thinking is right)

or does this prog somehow decrypt md5 hashes??

 

i would doubt it decrypts md5 hash's... but heres a link anyway

http://www.oxid.it/cain.html