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Encrypt the Agent Name

The Web Agent, by default, adds its name to the URL that redirects a user to a forms, SSL, or NTLM credential collector. You can control whether the Agent encrypts its name in the URL and whether the credential collector decrypts the name when it receives the URL with the EncryptAgentName parameter.

The default setting for the EncryptAgentName parameter is yes. You should set this parameter to no in either of the following situations:

• If a third-party application is working with the credential collector and it must be able to read the Agent name for processing.
• If you configure a Web Agent as a Forms Credential Collector (FCC) for forms authentication, and direct users to a single resource to be authenticated. The procedure to configure a single resource target requires an un-encrypted Agent name.

To encrypt the Web Agent name, set the EncryptAgentName parameter to yes.