Re: Fwd: TLS/SSH bugs

On 10 Dec 2014 at 11:31, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> >See this post for an example what the Security Wizard does with ASN1
> >UTF8Strings: http://forums.apc.com/message/65550#65550
> 
> How do you get a UTF-8 string into Windows?  Its native format is
> Unicode/UTF-16, where does the UTF8 string come from?  Is this an
> existing certificate that contains UTF8 strings which the wizard is
> displaying?  Can you send me a copy of the cert?

It's easy to use UTF-8 in Windows: just use the MultiByteToWideChar and 
WideCharToMultiByte functions with the CP_UTF8 code page to convert between 
unicode or ACP and UTF-8.

An increasing number of applications now include the conversion step between 
UTF16 and UTF-8 because UTF-8 is more widely interoperable - it doesn't suffer 
from endianness issues and almost utterly dominates the HTML/HTTP world these 
days.

Cheers!

-- David --

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