Just take the string as bytes and hash it ffs

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    3 months ago

    Take a string as bytes is bad with weird non-ASCII characters. Been there, been bitten in the ass by it.

    At least with e-mail clients different clients on different operating systems use different encoding by default for their passwords.

    With a router I could imagine different client apps following different standards.

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      3 months ago

      You don’t have to take arbitrary bytes. UTF-8 encoded strings are just fine and easily handled by libraries.

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        3 months ago

        At least with e-mail clients different clients on different operating systems use different encoding by default for their passwords.

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            3 months ago

            With a router I could imagine different client apps following different standards.

            Many routers can also be controlled via Telnet, which will also use different encodings depending on your OS.

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        3 months ago

        Y’all use UTF8? laughs in Japanese websites

        / can we please stop EUC-JP and SJIS and MS932 and all just switch to UTF8, please, Japan?!