I use Auth0 without social identity connection meaning all of my user_id fields in the id token have a auth0|{user_id } pattern. I noticed the user_id part is always a hex number so I want to strip the auth0| part and use the hex as a user ID in my application (obviously this has better performance …

Auth0|{user_id } length

diego.alejandro.gome December 27, 2020, 4:56pm 3

I figured it out, I pad the hex number and use it as uuid.

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