[gnutls-devel] rfc7613 password normalization

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Mon Nov 21 20:00:23 CET 2016


On 2016-11-16 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  The merge request [0] introduces UTF8 password "canonicalization"
> according to RFC7613. That is, a UTF8 or UTF16 password (in case of
> PKCS#12 files) will be transformed to a unique form prior to being
> used to generate a key.
[...]
> A side-effect of this change, is that gnutls will also depend on
> libunistring (which is in the process of being relicensed to
> lgplv3+gplv2), for proper unicode support.

> [0]. https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/merge_requests/137

I would appreciate if the merge happened after
libunistring was relicensed.

cu Andreas
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