Cookie Encryption Key

[Ramon Pfeiffer]

On 19.07.2017 15:54, Cantor, Scott wrote:
> On 7/19/17, 2:37 AM, "users on behalf of Ramon Pfeiffer" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of ramon.pfeiffer at uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> 
>> Am I correct that the sessions of a user are then stored in the backing
>> storage so that it will survive a failover between my two nodes?
> 
> If it's not mid-request, yes.
> 
>> What do you mean by "that's generally a non-issue now"?
> 
> I meant needing queries is generally not common now. The main purpose of the key is sessions, not queries.
> 

To recap then:
- My sessions are stored in a backing storage and can survive a failover and
- I don't mind if I cannot use attribute queries with transient IDs.

If I understand the wiki page and its implications correctly, I can now
safely disable the use of the Cookie Encryption Key?

Thanks again for clarifying
Ramon

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