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Concepts Symmetric Key Attestation
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This page is part of the Azure documentation. It contains code examples and configuration instructions for working with Azure services.
Bias Analysis
Detected Bias Types
windows_first
powershell_heavy
Summary
The documentation provides example code for generating derived device keys using Azure CLI, Windows PowerShell, Linux (openssl), and C#. However, in the tabbed example section, the Windows/PowerShell example is presented before the Linux example, and the PowerShell script is more detailed and user-friendly compared to the Linux/openssl example. There is a slight 'windows_first' ordering and a more comprehensive PowerShell example, which may indicate a subtle Windows bias.
Recommendations
- Alternate the order of Windows and Linux examples in tabbed sections, or present Linux examples first in some cases to balance exposure.
- Ensure that Linux/bash examples are as detailed and user-friendly as the PowerShell examples, including clear variable assignments and output formatting.
- Where possible, provide cross-platform scripts (e.g., Python) that work equally well on Windows and Linux.
- Explicitly state that all methods are equally supported and tested on both Windows and Linux platforms.
- Consider including a table summarizing all available methods (CLI, PowerShell, Bash, C#, etc.) with platform compatibility.
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Flagged Code Snippets
$KEY='8isrFI1sGsIlvvFSSFRiMfCNzv21fjbE/+ah/lSh3lF8e2YG1Te7w1KpZhJFFXJrqYKi9yegxkqIChbqOS9Egw==' $REG_ID='sn-007-888-abc-mac-a1-b2-c3-d4-e5-f6' $hmacsha256 = New-Object System.Security.Cryptography.HMACSHA256 $hmacsha256.key = [Convert]::FromBase64String($KEY) $sig = $hmacsha256.ComputeHash([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($REG_ID)) $derivedkey = [Convert]::ToBase64String($sig) echo "`n$derivedkey`n"