RE: [saml-dev] source ID

["Steve Anderson" <sanderson@opennetwork.com>]

Global uniqueness isn't necessarily required.  At a minimum, the ID that a company uses to identify itself to a partner must be unique at that partner.

 

A recommended technique (described in the SAML Bindings and Profiles document) for generating IDs is to generate a SHA-1 hash of the company's URL.  The URL is unique for that company, and the resultant hash is as well.

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Steve Anderson
OpenNetwork

-----Original Message-----
From: Sengul Vurgun [mailto:svurgun@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 1:03 PM
To: saml-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [saml-dev] source ID

Hi all,

 

How does one go about getting a company source ID? Do you just generate a random 20 char long string and send it to your customer? Or is this something that needs to adhere to certain encoding rules? Is there a place where companies register their source IDs? I am assuming that these IDs must be globally unique.

 

Thanks.

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