How to encrypt session id in cookie?

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While I was reading about session hijacking articles, i learned that it would be nice to encrypt session id value that is stored in a cookie.

As far as I know, when I start a session by calling session_start(), PHP does not encrypt session id value in a cookie.

How do I encrypt session id value and then initialize session with it?

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