Simon Watts
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Simon Watts created an article, SameSite cookie support and Chrome 80
OverviewGoogle has been working with the Internet community to help strengthen the security of cookies. Draft RFC 6265bis-03 defines new settings for the SameSite cookie flag to allow for compatibi...
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Simon Watts created an article, OTPs delivered via SMS appear to originate from multiple different phone numbers
Version Affected: All Description: When end users are receiving OTPs via SMS the sender number is not consistent and appears to be coming from different phone numbers rather than a fixed SMS sho...
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Simon Watts created an article, mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid attribute support
Version Affected: All Description: Which versions of SecureAuth IdP support mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid. Cause: A migration to Office365 or merge into an existing Org may require that mS-DS-Consis...
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Simon Watts created an article, Service Provider delay while attempting SAML Artifact Binding
Version Affected: 9.2 and higher Description: When SAML metadata has been shared by a realm with a Service Provider, some Service Providers can attempt SAML Artifact Binding instead of HTTP Post...
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Simon Watts commented, Yes, this tool should be run on the IdP itself. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll update the article.
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Simon Watts created an article, How to disable Debug text logging on all realms
Version Affected: All Description: How to disable Debug text logging on all realms Cause: The debug text logs can consume a lot of disk space over time. It is common to forget to disable de...
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Simon Watts created an article, Regular Expressions for ITU E.123 and E.164 phone number formats
Version Affected: All Description: How to write a Regex (Regular Expression) that matches the ITU E.123 and E.164 formats. Cause: The SecureAuth Best Practices guide mentions that phone num...
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Simon Watts created an article, Error: at ComponentSpace.SAML2.Utility.XmlSignature.Generate
Version Affected: All Description: The following error is received when trying to sign the SAML assertion or message. If signing is disabled then the error does not occur: Error: at ComponentSp...
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Simon Watts created an article, SecureAuth API returns "Could not resolve fingerprint with ID"
Version Affected: IdP 8.2 and higher Description: When sending the fingerprint_id to the DFP confirmation endpoint API (POST to /api/v1/dfp/confirm) the following response is received: ApiRespon...
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Simon Watts created an article, Webservice realm stops working if Lookup realm is set to use WinSSO
Version Affected: All Description: When a lookup realm (AD, SQL etc.) is set to use Windows SSO (IWA) any Webservice realms that depend on it fail to work anymore Cause: Switching to WinSSO t...