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ptate_72056
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Jan 23, 2009

Persistence cookies and security

Hi Everyone,     We've recently had a security audit reveal that the BigIP persistence cookie contains the IP address and the port of the node the user connected to.     I can se...
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Deb_Allen_18
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Jan 23, 2009
The cookie data is encrypted and decrypted by the LTM only using the specified key. The client, since it does not have the key, cannot decrypt the cookie, so any data within it is not readable by the client.