[7288] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos using Unicode character set
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Schwartz)
Wed May 15 21:47:56 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 15 May 1996 19:44:49 GMT
From: schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
mikesw@MICROSOFT.com (Mike Swift) writes:
| Has anyone seen protocol extensions for running Krb5 using UNICODE
| strings instead of ASCII strings?
Instead of protocol extensions, how about just using UTF-8 (a variable
width multibyte encoding of unicode runes). It's backwards compatable
with ascii, and generally very easy to deal with. Lots of prior art
in Plan 9 indicates that this is the way to go.
