GDPR Consent String Utilities

Pre-requisites

These two utilities are written in Perl, and rely on the language version 5.10 or later. In addition, the script generate.pl requires the following CPAN libraries:

• Config::General;
• Getopt::Long.

Generation

The script generate.pl is used to create a consent string. It has two primary modes of usage, from a configuration file or from command-line settings. The two can be used in combination -- the command-line settings override the configuration file.

To generate the string from a configuration file:

./generate.pl --conf demo.conf

To generate the string from command-line settings:

./generate.pl --ver=1 --created=15100821554 --updated=15100821554 --cmp-id=7 --cmp-ver=1 --screen=3 --language=EN --vendor-ver=8 --max-vendor-id=2011 --encoding-type=1 --purpose 1=1 --purpose 2=1 --purpose 3=1 --default-consent=1 --vendor 9=0

Parsing

The script parse.pl is used to interpret a consent string. It is used with a single argument, as follows:

./parse.pl BOEFEAyOEFEAyAHABDENAI4AAAB9vABAASA