[Zope3-dev] possible bug in z.a.password?
Dmitry Vasiliev
dima at hlabs.spb.ru
Sat Apr 21 06:17:03 EDT 2007
Adam Groszer 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 :-)
I want to believe that most use more secure password managers which fit
their needs. :-)
> and UTF-8 is encoding ASCII to ASCII (does
> it change anything???).
I think it's OK.
> IMHO it would not hurt adding an UTF-8 encoding to the current
> password manager.
> Anybody against that?
+1 I can commit the changes if nobody objects.
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Dmitry Vasiliev <dima at hlabs.spb.ru>
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