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Rod

OK so what your saying is that you can use the SID as the basis for generating a unique EPTID  for each SP. I thought Paul was asking whether you could use the SID as the actual value. I think what your saying is that by using the entityID of the SP the software effectively ensures that each SP gets a different EPTID thus ensuring that the Federations rules are followed. 

Nigel

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From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rod Widdowson
Sent: 06 May 2009 15:10
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Subject: Re: Attribute Definitions and metadatatool

> I think (someone will correct me if I'm wrong) that you can't use the SID 
> as the EPTI because the
> Federation rules oblige you to return a different EPTI value to each SP.

Nigel,
you are indeed wrong.  The Shib software take that into account.  What the 
PersistentIDAttributeDefinition does is in fact take a triple

- what you give it
- The salt you give it
- The entityID of the requestion SP

And mungs them into some funky hash.  It then throws it at the SP.

This is why Resolvertest won't issue a EPTID unless you give it an SP 
entiyID

/Rod