The ACF2 team is pleased to announce the availability of enhanced PassTicket support. Enhanced PassTickets use a more secure algorithm and have additional features compared to legacy PassTickets.
Enhanced PassTickets
- Key must be stored encrypted in ICSF.
- 256-2048 bit HMAC secret key.
- PassTickets contain upper and lowercase A-Z, a-z, 0-9, - (dash), and _ (underscore) when PTTYPE is set to MIXED.
- Time out is configurable (1-600 seconds).
Legacy PassTickets
- Can be masked or key stored encrypted in ICSF.
- Secret 64-bit DES key.
- PassTickets contain uppercase A-Z, 0-9.
- Time out is 10 minutes.
For more information, see PTKTDATA Profile Records.
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Laura Fletcher
Staff Technical Writer
Broadcom
Illinois
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