On Sat, 8 May 2004 01:37, Matthias Wimmer wrote:
> Therefore md5(lowercase(jid_full)) would result in
> the same hash for two different addresses!
That's actually a property of all hashes anyway. Comes with the territory of
reducing Y bytes to X bytes where X < Y.
> But as normal impelemtations of lowercase() only convert
> the letters A to Z but not 'accented' letters like "�",
> md5(lowercase(jid_full)) would result in two different hashes for the
> same address.
Now that _is_ a problem.
I've been wondering about this annoyance... Java really needs stringprep in
the language if we're to use it for Jabber. :-/
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