title: The use of cookies and their security
body: <h2>Background</h2>
  
  <p>As you all probably know: Cookies are small files which are stored on a user's computer. They are designed to hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular client and website, and can be accessed either by the web server or the client computer.</p>
  
  <p>This knowledge made me wonder about the security of cookies and gave me a few questions</p>
  
  <h2>My questions</h2>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Are Cookies encrypted by default</li>
  <li>If they are not, how would I go about encrypting my cookies</li>
  <li>Above points aside, are cookies encrypted when I am using SSL</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>As I am a PHP developer above questions are all with the eye on PHP.</p>