[jdev] Case sensitive & jid

[Trejkaz Xaoza]

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 "Ü",
> 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. :-/

TX

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