So close....yet so far

Hello, When last i posted, I was having problems getting radius and LDAP to talk using TLS. Ive fixed my problem, but in this process Ive come across another issue. When testing I tried using a ! in a test user's password. On the radius server it came across as %21 instead of !. EXAMPLE:

Connecting radius to ldap securely?

Hello, I successfully gotten ldap and radius to talk using the radcheck user passwd 127.0.0.1 1 testing123 which gives me a Access-Accept message. So I assume that Im working correctly. Now I would like to get this encrypted either by using SSL or TLS. So I use debian/sarge, thus I apt-get