On 07/23/2015 12:57 PM, Stefan Heymann wrote: >> What about character set used for storing passwords - this question >> makes no sense, passwords are not stored, hashes for them are stored >> instead. One may use non-ascii characters for apsswords, but in beta2 >> this will cause troubles when using services. Currently in SVN this is >> fixed, in final release one can use any characters for passwords. > A character may have different byte or byte sequence representations, > depending on the applied character set. So it will make a difference > when creating the hash.
Certainly. Therefore passwords are converted to UTF8 before hash calculation. > I think the documentation (Release Notes) should make it clear if it > is possible to use characters outside the 7-bit US-ASCII range and if > so, which character set is to be used when passing them. We will try to not forget it in RC1 release notes. > If it is restricted to 7-bit ASCII, that's OK. But it should be > documented so we can take it into account when entering passwords. In > this case, "character" and "byte" is the same but I also think the > documentation shouldn't mix these terms as it does now. Fill free to send fixed text for that part of release notes. That will be great. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
