Hi Stefan, > I'm just reading through the Firebird 3 release notes. > > The chapter about "Increased Password Length" speaks of a maximum of > 20 bytes. The second blue box in this chapter then asks: > > **Why is the password effectively limited to 20 characters? > > It is unclear from this documentation if this is about bytes or > characters. What character set is used for storing passwords? Are > these restricted to 7-Bit US-ASCII? (in this case, the number of bytes > and characters would be the same).
OTTOMH, password hashes are stored using character set OCTETS. No other charset would make sense, methinks. That would still leave open the possibility to enter passwords in multibyte charsets, but I don't know if this is supported. If it is, the 'effective length' as explained in the RelNotes would be 20 bytes, not characters. > (I hope this is the right forum for this question, if not, please > give me a hint.) Unless Helen has the answer ready, I guess this is something for Firebird-devel. Cheers, Paul Vinkenoog ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Firebird-docs mailing list Firebird-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-docs
