Re: Unicode in passwords

From: Marc Blanchet <marc.blanchet_at_viagenie.ca>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 09:45:17 -0400

On 5 Oct 2015, at 9:42, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

> On 10/5/15, Marc Blanchet <marc.blanchet_at_viagenie.ca> wrote:
>> On 5 Oct 2015, at 8:14, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681250
>>
>> And?
>
> Well the OP did say:
>
> <quote>
> I'm researching potential problems and best practices for password
> policies that allow non-Latin-1 Unicode characters.
> </quote>
>
> The link seemed valid food for the research as was offerred FWIW.

sure. but roughly one could conclude from the bug report that only allow
us-ascii is safe, which may not be what could be « best practices »
depending on the point of view…

Marc.

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