[GH-ISSUE #205] Problem with passwords that contain non-ascii caracters #188

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Originally created by @tonioo on GitHub (Dec 4, 2013).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa/issues/205

Originally assigned to: @tonioo on GitHub.

Originally created by Antoine Nguyen on 2011-12-28T10:53:32Z

Passwords that contain non-ascii caracters are translated to unicode strings by python but the crypto module uses strings. The encrypt function padds the clear password to make its length a multiple of 16 but using a unicode object :p

The size of a unicode object is twice the size of a string one so the resulting string lenght is not correct.

Originally created by @tonioo on GitHub (Dec 4, 2013). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa/issues/205 Originally assigned to: @tonioo on GitHub. **Originally created by Antoine Nguyen on 2011-12-28T10:53:32Z** Passwords that contain non-ascii caracters are translated to unicode strings by python but the crypto module uses strings. The encrypt function padds the clear password to make its length a multiple of 16 but using a unicode object :p The size of a unicode object is twice the size of a string one so the resulting string lenght is not correct.

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@tonioo commented on GitHub (Dec 4, 2013):

Posted by Redmine Admin on 2011-12-28T12:29:54Z

In [2f5d9dd42083af091a0ed9b05f0d102440357960]:

#!CommitTicketReference repository="" revision="2f5d9dd42083af091a0ed9b05f0d102440357960"
We convert the given password to a string to avoid errors with the crypto module.
fix #193

@tonioo commented on GitHub (Dec 4, 2013): **Posted by Redmine Admin on 2011-12-28T12:29:54Z** In [2f5d9dd42083af091a0ed9b05f0d102440357960]: <pre> #!CommitTicketReference repository="" revision="2f5d9dd42083af091a0ed9b05f0d102440357960" We convert the given password to a string to avoid errors with the crypto module. fix #193 </pre>