[eluser]Peccavio[/eluser]
[quote author="Jonny Noog" date="1240937122"]I mentioned liking the idea of Native_session ... But I also don't really want to be using outdated or unmaintained libraries.[/quote]
I have worked extensivey with Native_session although currently I'm not up to date with CI.
The code, it's author was well talented, he is no longer around. but good code is good code. I like it's features.
There is also a db version with the same API but CI has since upgraded the MySQL requirement.
This resource would require some testing and updating to use.
It is easy to encrypt a value before storing it to a cookie or session variable.