# Which cryptographic techniques is used in generation of kibana session Id

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-cryptographic-techniques-is-used-in-generation-of-kibana-session-id/144630>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 16, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-cryptographic-techniques-is-used-in-generation-of-kibana-session-id/144630 "2018-08-16T06:35:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrudrego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@mrudrego](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrudrego)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-cryptographic-techniques-is-used-in-generation-of-kibana-session-id/144630/1 "2018-08-16T06:35:10Z")

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Hi,

We are using kibana 6.2.4 with kibana-searchguard plugin 6.2.4-12.  
Please let us know what is the cryptographic techniques is used in generation of kibana session Id?

Thanks & Regards,  
Mahesh

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**Author:** ![a5a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@a5a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a5a)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-cryptographic-techniques-is-used-in-generation-of-kibana-session-id/144630/2 "2018-08-16T15:48:34Z")

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You might want to check with the Search Guard folks for more information. We don't maintain that plugin.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-cryptographic-techniques-is-used-in-generation-of-kibana-session-id/144630/3 "2018-09-13T15:48:45Z")

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