Re: Schema: encrypted 8-bit userPassword and SASLprep

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 08:44 AM 9/12/2003, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>     To improve matching, applications SHOULD prepare textual strings
>     used as passwords. Applications which prepare textural strings used
>     as password are REQUIRED to prepare them by transcoding the string
>     to [Unicode], apply [SASLprep], and encode as UTF-8.

s/application/client/

>BTW, it's unclear whether or not the above text only applies to simple
>auth, since the previous sentence is
>
>     The simple form of an AuthenticationChoice specifies a simple
>     password to be used for authentication.
>
>That should be clarified.

I concur.  The statement above applies to the simple authentication method.
Other methods have their own requirements as stated in their technical
specification.

Kurt