Feature: #84053 - API to anonymize IP addresses 

See forge#84053

Description 

A new API has been introduced which can be used to anonymize IP addresses. This shall help to comply with data protection and privacy laws and requirement.

\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\IpAnonymizationUtility::anonymizeIp(string $ipAddress, int $mask = null)

If $mask is set to null (default value), the setting $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['ipAnonymization'] is taken into account.

The following options for $mask are possible:

  • 0: The anonymization is disabled.
  • 1: For IPv4 addresses the last byte is masked. E.g. 192.168.100.10 is transformed to 192.168.100.0.
    For IPv6 addresses the Interface ID. E.g. 2002:6dcd:8c74:6501:fb2:61c:ac98:6bea is transformed to 2002:6dcd:8c74:6501::
  • 2: For IPv4 addresses the last two bytes are masked. E.g. 192.168.100.10 is transformed to 192.168.0.0.
    For IPv6 addresses the Interface ID and SLA ID. E.g. 2002:6dcd:8c74:6501:fb2:61c:ac98:6bea is transformed to 2002:6dcd:8c74::

The default value for $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['ipAnonymization'] is 1!

Impact 

The core uses this API whenever IP addresses are stored, this includes:

  • Indexed Search uses the new setting for its search statistics.