In message <2418fe0a-8a61-47ad-9e60-f40bd0c79...@openssl.org> on Mon, 11 Jun 
2018 19:29:09 +0200, Richard Levitte <levi...@openssl.org> said:

levitte> 
levitte> 
levitte> "Salz, Rich" <rs...@akamai.com> skrev: (11 juni 2018 18:54:37 CEST)
levitte> >>    Except that, because of the way PKCS12_gen_mac() works, this 
isn't
levitte> >    true.  If the input pass phrase looks like a UTF-8 encoded string
levitte> >  (because there are valid characters in other encodings that will 
like
levitte> >  like UTF-8 byte sequences), it will be used as if -passutf8 was 
given
levitte> >    instead.
levitte> >  
levitte> >Well, at least I started down the path.  I wonder if one of those 
flags
levitte> >should set the keygen to asc?
levitte> 
levitte> That could be an idea, except that's not an easy change. Effectively, 
that's exactly equivalent to doing a naïve utf-8 encode in the application. 

BTW, this subthread is a development discussion...  shouldn't that be
happening on github, along with a WIP PR?

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Richard Levitte         levi...@openssl.org
OpenSSL Project         http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/
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