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Damian Kosowski
19,746 PointsWhat is the reason for using both the MessageVerifier and a signed Cookie?
If the purpose of the MessageVerifier is to generate messages that are signed to prevent tampering and there is also a possibility to generate a signed and encrypted Cookie, why would we use both? As I understand we could just assign - cookies.permanent.signed = user.id and this should be enough to generate a signed token. Is it just to enhance security or is there any other reason for using both those techniques?