Unicode in passwords

Martin J. Dürst duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Mon Oct 5 22:39:36 CDT 2015


On 2015/10/01 13:11, Jonathan Rosenne wrote:
> For languages such as Java, passwords should be handled as byte arrays rather than strings. This may make it difficult to apply normalization.

Well, they should be received from the user interface as strings, then 
normalized, then converted to byte arrays using a well-defined single 
encoding. Somewhat tedious, but hopefully not difficult.

Regards,   Martin.


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