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Christopher_J_B
Sep 09, 2011Nimbostratus
This would be Akamai's g2o authentication used for CDN
The F5 will receive from Akamai edge servers a pair of headers. One in plain text with some data fields (time in epoch format, unique id, ...) and another with a base64 encoded signature. The signature is a hash (md5) of some of the data fields in the first header and a pre-shared secret.