[Zope3-dev] possible bug in z.a.password?

Adam Groszer agroszer at gmail.com
Sat Apr 21 05:16:53 EDT 2007


Hello Dmitry,

Saturday, April 21, 2007, 10:57:07 AM, you wrote:

> Ugh, my bad I didn't notice that passwords may be Unicode strings. I
> think password should be encoded to UTF-8 before processing but I don't
> know that to do with backward compatibility. As an option we can 
> introduce new Unicode-aware password managers. Opinions?

Thinking it further, I think that nobody was able to enter accented
passwords until today :-) and UTF-8 is encoding ASCII to ASCII (does
it change anything???).
IMHO it would not hurt adding an UTF-8 encoding to the current
password manager.
Anybody against that?

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Best regards,
 Adam                            mailto:agroszer at gmail.com



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