MD4 and DES for unicode strings (samba passwd file manipulation)

[Arcady Genkin]

martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. Loewis) writes:

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

> if you want a string of 16-bit little-endian unicode characters,
> make sure you have one:
>
>     m = MD4.new()
>     m.update(password.encode("utf-16-le"))
>     m.hexdigest().upper()
>
> (I don't have the MD4 library, so I cannot verify this.  But if
> it works, it works for both 8-bit strings with ASCII text, and
> Unicode strings)

Yep, this works.  Thank you both very much!
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