openssl pkcs12 command line and UTF-8 encoded passwords

[Harakiri]

Hello,

there seems to be an issue with the openssl pkcs12
command and passwords which are UTF-8 encoded.
(OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004)

Im using the option -passin file:mypin.txt

When mypin.txt contains a password (i.e. german
umlauts) which is UTF-8 encoded (bash: file mypin.txt
returns : UTF-8 Unicode text, with no line
terminators) openssl does not recognize the password
as correct.

However, when i encode the password to ISO-8859-1 it
works
(bash: file mypin.txt returns : ISO-8859 text, with no
line terminators).

This is an unexpected behaviour, because i have set my
locale option to UTF8 - i would expect that openssl
either finds the correct encoding (like the command
file does) itself OR uses the default encoding set in
my locale setting.

Is this a bug, a feature or a user error ?

Thanks

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[Dr. Stephen Henson]

Post by Harakiri
Hello,
there seems to be an issue with the openssl pkcs12
command and passwords which are UTF-8 encoded.
(OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004)

[snip]

Post by Harakiri
Is this a bug, a feature or a user error ?

The current behaviour of the pkcs12 utility is to effectively only support
passwords in ISO8859-1 format.

Support may be added with a -utf8 command line switch option to the pkcs12
utility at some point.

Steve.
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[Harakiri]

Thank you

Post by Dr. Stephen Henson
The current behaviour of the pkcs12 utility is to
effectively only support
passwords in ISO8859-1 format.
Support may be added with a -utf8 command line
switch option to the pkcs12
utility at some point.
Steve.

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