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ChristianH_1903
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Nov 18, 2015

Generating SAML attributes and calculations in variable assignments

Hi,   I'm currently setting up my f5 to act as SAML IdP. One of the attributes I need to send back is supposed to contain an opaque, privacy-preserving unique ID. I was thinking of using e.g. sha2...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Nov 18, 2015

If I may add, can you clarify "privacy-preserving"?

 

SHA is a hashing algorithm so whatever you get from that operation isn't going to be reversible on the other side. Hex-encoding is reversible, but it's not really "encrypted" so no real security there.