Negotiate

Contains the HMAC signature.

HMAC signature will be calculated using HMAC data consisting of these fields which should be in ascending order and delimited with new line (\n) characters. There should be no trailing new line.

• RequestTimestamp + '\n' +
• UUID + '\n' +
• SessionID + '\n' +
• FirmID

The HMAC signature is an encoded hash (digest) of the four fields mentioned above using the Secret Key provided by CME. 

In pseudo code:

HmacSHA256(HmacData, secretKey)

Contains the AccessKeyID assigned to this session on this port.

For example: TXkgU2VjcmV0IEtleQ

Session Identifier defined as type long (uInt64); CME Group recommends using the number of microseconds since epoch (Jan 1, 1970) as the timestamp.

• Unique at the beginning of the week on Sunday to start with sequence number 1
• Keep using same UUID in midweek Establish messages to maintain continuous sequence numbers

CME track of last known used UUID.

The Negotiate message must be sent prior to the Establish message with a new UUID midweek.

When used after Negotiate, Negotiate.UUID should have the same value as Etablish.UUID or the message will be rejected.

Client systems must use the same UUID for both primary and backup connections if using active-active fault tolerance to ensure that the sequence numbers will continue after a failover. 

Currently not supported; however the length of variable data needs to be set to 0, represented as two bytes 00 00.