There's a security risk in exposing the token. So encoding won't work. Best
is to has i presume.

Thanks,
NuwanD.


On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Sajith Ravindra <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Lakmali,
>
> If this is not for a encryption purpose I think it's better to use Base64
> encoding. As per the description i feel that what you are trying to do is
> encoding rather than encrypting. Also you can decode it back if you want if
> you use Base64 encoding.
>
> Thanks
> *, Sajith Ravindra*
> Senior Software Engineer
> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
> lean.enterprise.middleware
>
> mobile: +94 77 2273550
> blog: http://sajithr.blogspot.com/
> <http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/shani-ranasinghe/34/111/ab>
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Lakmali Baminiwatta <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For tracking API invocations through Google Analytic, we need to send an
>> unique ID based on the API token. As a solution,we can generate the MD5Sum
>> value of the API token and send it as the unique ID.
>>
>> Is it fine to proceed with this approach or do we have a better way to
>> achieve this? Appreciate any thoughts.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lakmali
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Lakmali Baminiwatta
>>  Software Engineer
>> WSO2, Inc.: http://wso2.com
>> lean.enterprise.middleware
>> mobile:  +94 71 2335936
>> blog : lakmali.com
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Dev mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Dev mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
>
>


-- 
Nuwan Dias

Associate Tech Lead - WSO2, Inc. http://wso2.com
email : [email protected]
Phone : +94 777 775 729
_______________________________________________
Dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev

Reply via email to