 a general rule, and trusts the application or user to choose a suitable character set and stick to that throughout the lifetime of affected objects. This means that for an object that was encrypted using a pass phrase encoded in ISO-8859-1, that object needs to be decrypted using a pass phrase encoded in ISO-8859-1. Using the wrong encoding is expected to cause a decryption failure.</p>

<h2 id="PKCS-12">PKCS#12</h2>

<p>PKCS#12 is a bit different regarding pass phrase encoding. The standard stipulates tha