// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 
namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection;
 
/// <summary>
/// Provides global options for the Data Protection system.
/// </summary>
public class DataProtectionOptions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// An identifier that uniquely discriminates this application from all other
    /// applications on the machine. The discriminator value is implicitly included
    /// in all protected payloads generated by the data protection system to isolate
    /// multiple logical applications that all happen to be using the same key material.
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>
    /// If two different applications need to share protected payloads, they should
    /// ensure that this property is set to the same value across both applications.
    /// </remarks>
    public string? ApplicationDiscriminator { get; set; }
}