ase-encoding - How diverse parts of OpenSSL treat pass phrases character encoding</p>

<h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1>

<p>In a modern world with all sorts of character encodings, the treatment of pass phrases has become increasingly complex. This manual page attempts to give an overview over how this problem is currently addressed in different parts of the OpenSSL library.</p>

<h2 id="The-general-case">The general case</h2>

<p>The OpenSSL library doesn&#39;t treat pass phrases in any special way as