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Nimbostratus

Jul 20, 2016

cookie encyption passphrase

I realize this is a pretty basic question so don't skewer me. I want to enable cookie encryption which seems like a very painless process, but I'm just curious as to what the cookie encryption passph...

Nimbostratus

Jul 20, 2016

Hi jerm1020. I'm not a crypto expert but let me take a stab at this. The passphrase may be used by the F5 AES process to do a mathematical computation like XOR to come up with the encrypted value for your cookie. You don't give this out to user because it is used by F5 appliance. There is no other configuration on other devices as far as I'm concerned.

ekaleido
Cirrus
Jul 20, 2016
Yeah. It's just the key used to encrypt the cookie. Otherwise the cookie will contain data related to your virtual server's name and the IP(s) of the pool member(s).