Re: [saml-dev] FW: [#6949] Question sent to support

["Tom Scavo" <trscavo@gmail.com>]

On 4/2/07, Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu> wrote:
>
> > However some implementation uses combination of encryption like SHA-1 Hash
> > of the Site ID bytes value followed by Base64 encode.
>
> On the wire the complete artifact is base64 encoded. The SourceID is only
> part of the artifact, and it's really binary data. Hex is just a way to
> represent it, but artifacts are more than just the SourceID.

For more detail, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML_2.0#Artifact_Format

Hope this helps,
Tom