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Re: NF* (Re: PKCS#11 URI slot attributes & last call)

Jan Pechanec <jan.pechanec@oracle.com> Sun, 04 January 2015 03:59 UTC

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On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Nico Williams wrote:

>I'm in favor of saying "do form-insensitive comparison".  I'd settle for
>"always normalize to NFC when creating PKCS#11 resources" because, after
>all, that's what IRIs need anyways, it's just that a PKCS#11 URI-using
>app might not be in a position to make "normalize on create" happen.

	we could recommend the normalize-before-matching approach.  
Even for objects (keys), the application could use only non-UTF-8 
value attributes in the PKCS#11 search template.  Then, go through all 
returning objects and for UTF-8 value attributes, do NFC normalization 
first before matching them.

	however, I think that "SHOULD" would be too strong.  I think 
it could be mentioned side by side to the warning text based on what 
John noted about situations with a need to use non-ASCII characters.

	Jan

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