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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Greetings,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Given the following scenario:</div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">An IPP Printer has reported via Get-Printer-Attributes:</li><ul class=""><li class="">"job-password-supported" = 32</li><li class="">"job-password-encryption-supported" = 'none', 'md5'</li><li class="">(going to ignore "job-password-repertoire-configured" and "job-password-length-supported" for now...)</li></ul><li class="">An IPP Client acquires from the User a job password "beeblebrox"</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">If the Client chooses 'none', then it should send in a Validate-Job operation</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"job-password-encryption" = '<font face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class="">none</font>'</div><div class="">"job-password" = 'beeblebrox'</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, if the Client chooses 'md5', how does it encode the md5 hash octets? Does it encode it as hex-ascii in 32 octets like so?</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"job-password-encryption" = '<font face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class="">none</font>'</div><div class="">"job-password" = '3f73fde3af41b6a50c84a75f84892b85'</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or since 'job-password' is defined in 5100.11 as "job-password (octetString(255))", is it reasonable for it to provide the raw binary value? I cannot find any statement in PWG 5100.11, RFC 8010, or wp-job-password-repertoire-20160101.pdf that makes this clear. Is the Printer expected to handle both scenarios?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thoughts?</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
Smith<br class=""><br class="">/**<br class=""> Smith Kennedy<br class=""> Wireless Architect - Client Software - IPG-PPS<br class=""> Standards - IEEE ISTO PWG / Bluetooth SIG / Wi-Fi Alliance / NFC Forum / USB IF<br class=""> Chair, IEEE ISTO Printer Working Group<br class=""> HP Inc.<br class="">*/<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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