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RFC 7613
Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Usernames and Passwords,August 2015
- File formats:
- Status:
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Obsoletes:
- RFC 4013
- Obsoleted by:
- RFC 8265
- Authors:
- P. Saint-Andre
A. Melnikov - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- precis (art)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7613
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Abstract
This document describes updated methods for handling Unicode stringsrepresenting usernames and passwords. The previous approach wasknown as SASLprep (RFC 4013) and was based on stringprep (RFC 3454).The methods specified in this document provide a more sustainableapproach to the handling of internationalized usernames andpasswords. The preparation, enforcement, and comparison ofinternationalized strings (PRECIS) framework, RFC 7564, obsoletes RFC3454, and this document obsoletes RFC 4013.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.