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Passwords-based systems assume input, and most UI frameworks use text strings for inputs. Binary password is usually not called a password, it's a key.
by dchest 11y ago
Passwords-based systems assume input, and most UI frameworks use text strings for inputs.
Binary password is usually not called a password, it's a key.
- smsm42 11y agoExactly, so if they are not meant to be input, as the article claims, why are they passwords and not keys? Why they are even checked to be valid unicode strings? I know of no encryption algorithm that cares about key being a valid unicode string. Looks like just laziness in distinguishing which data should be binary and which should be Unicode string.