diff --git a/pkg/sessions/cookie/session_store.go b/pkg/sessions/cookie/session_store.go
index 44799f9..2c034b2 100644
--- a/pkg/sessions/cookie/session_store.go
+++ b/pkg/sessions/cookie/session_store.go
@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 package cookie
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
 
+	"github.com/pusher/oauth2_proxy/cookie"
 	"github.com/pusher/oauth2_proxy/pkg/apis/options"
 	"github.com/pusher/oauth2_proxy/pkg/apis/sessions"
+	"github.com/pusher/oauth2_proxy/pkg/sessions/utils"
 )
 
 // Ensure CookieSessionStore implements the interface
@@ -13,28 +18,119 @@ var _ sessions.SessionStore = &SessionStore{}
 
 // SessionStore is an implementation of the sessions.SessionStore
 // interface that stores sessions in client side cookies
-type SessionStore struct{}
+type SessionStore struct {
+	CookieCipher *cookie.Cipher
+	CookieExpire time.Duration
+	CookieName   string
+	CookieSecret string
+}
 
 // SaveSession takes a sessions.SessionState and stores the information from it
 // within Cookies set on the HTTP response writer
-func (c *SessionStore) SaveSession(rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, s *sessions.SessionState) error {
+func (s *SessionStore) SaveSession(rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, ss *sessions.SessionState) error {
 	return fmt.Errorf("method not implemented")
 }
 
 // LoadSession reads sessions.SessionState information from Cookies within the
 // HTTP request object
-func (c *SessionStore) LoadSession(req *http.Request) (*sessions.SessionState, error) {
-	return nil, fmt.Errorf("method not implemented")
+func (s *SessionStore) LoadSession(req *http.Request) (*sessions.SessionState, error) {
+	c, err := loadCookie(req, s.CookieName)
+	if err != nil {
+		// always http.ErrNoCookie
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Cookie %q not present", s.CookieName)
+	}
+	val, _, ok := cookie.Validate(c, s.CookieSecret, s.CookieExpire)
+	if !ok {
+		return nil, errors.New("Cookie Signature not valid")
+	}
+
+	session, err := utils.SessionFromCookie(val, s.CookieCipher)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return session, nil
 }
 
 // ClearSession clears any saved session information by writing a cookie to
 // clear the session
-func (c *SessionStore) ClearSession(rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) error {
+func (s *SessionStore) ClearSession(rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) error {
 	return fmt.Errorf("method not implemented")
 }
 
 // NewCookieSessionStore initialises a new instance of the SessionStore from
 // the configuration given
 func NewCookieSessionStore(opts options.CookieStoreOptions, cookieOpts *options.CookieOptions) (sessions.SessionStore, error) {
-	return &SessionStore{}, fmt.Errorf("method not implemented")
+	var cipher *cookie.Cipher
+	if len(cookieOpts.CookieSecret) > 0 {
+		var err error
+		cipher, err = cookie.NewCipher(utils.SecretBytes(cookieOpts.CookieSecret))
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to create cipher: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return &SessionStore{
+		CookieCipher: cipher,
+		CookieExpire: cookieOpts.CookieExpire,
+		CookieName:   cookieOpts.CookieName,
+		CookieSecret: cookieOpts.CookieSecret,
+	}, nil
+}
+
+// loadCookie retreieves the sessions state cookie from the http request.
+// If a single cookie is present this will be returned, otherwise it attempts
+// to reconstruct a cookie split up by splitCookie
+func loadCookie(req *http.Request, cookieName string) (*http.Cookie, error) {
+	c, err := req.Cookie(cookieName)
+	if err == nil {
+		return c, nil
+	}
+	cookies := []*http.Cookie{}
+	err = nil
+	count := 0
+	for err == nil {
+		var c *http.Cookie
+		c, err = req.Cookie(fmt.Sprintf("%s_%d", cookieName, count))
+		if err == nil {
+			cookies = append(cookies, c)
+			count++
+		}
+	}
+	if len(cookies) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Could not find cookie %s", cookieName)
+	}
+	return joinCookies(cookies)
+}
+
+// joinCookies takes a slice of cookies from the request and reconstructs the
+// full session cookie
+func joinCookies(cookies []*http.Cookie) (*http.Cookie, error) {
+	if len(cookies) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("list of cookies must be > 0")
+	}
+	if len(cookies) == 1 {
+		return cookies[0], nil
+	}
+	c := copyCookie(cookies[0])
+	for i := 1; i < len(cookies); i++ {
+		c.Value += cookies[i].Value
+	}
+	c.Name = strings.TrimRight(c.Name, "_0")
+	return c, nil
+}
+
+func copyCookie(c *http.Cookie) *http.Cookie {
+	return &http.Cookie{
+		Name:       c.Name,
+		Value:      c.Value,
+		Path:       c.Path,
+		Domain:     c.Domain,
+		Expires:    c.Expires,
+		RawExpires: c.RawExpires,
+		MaxAge:     c.MaxAge,
+		Secure:     c.Secure,
+		HttpOnly:   c.HttpOnly,
+		Raw:        c.Raw,
+		Unparsed:   c.Unparsed,
+	}
 }
diff --git a/pkg/sessions/utils/utils.go b/pkg/sessions/utils/utils.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..051e9cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/sessions/utils/utils.go
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package utils
+
+import (
+	"encoding/base64"
+
+	"github.com/pusher/oauth2_proxy/cookie"
+	"github.com/pusher/oauth2_proxy/pkg/apis/sessions"
+)
+
+// CookieForSession serializes a session state for storage in a cookie
+func CookieForSession(s *sessions.SessionState, c *cookie.Cipher) (string, error) {
+	return s.EncodeSessionState(c)
+}
+
+// SessionFromCookie deserializes a session from a cookie value
+func SessionFromCookie(v string, c *cookie.Cipher) (s *sessions.SessionState, err error) {
+	return sessions.DecodeSessionState(v, c)
+}
+
+// SecretBytes attempts to base64 decode the secret, if that fails it treats the secret as binary
+func SecretBytes(secret string) []byte {
+	b, err := base64.URLEncoding.DecodeString(addPadding(secret))
+	if err == nil {
+		return []byte(addPadding(string(b)))
+	}
+	return []byte(secret)
+}
+
+func addPadding(secret string) string {
+	padding := len(secret) % 4
+	switch padding {
+	case 1:
+		return secret + "==="
+	case 2:
+		return secret + "=="
+	case 3:
+		return secret + "="
+	default:
+		return secret
+	}
+}