How do do strong authentication on LDAP connection?

[Dirksen L. <dir...@po...>]

Hi,

When I try the bind operation against our department LDAP server, I got this error:
ldap.STRONG_AUTH_REQUIRED: {'desc': 'Strong authentication required', 'info': 'This LDAP server does not accept cleartext passwords'}

How to do the strong authentication? Do I need to encrypt the password befire calling bind_s? What encryption sheme? Does python have the relevant 
module? Please advice!

Cheers
Dirksen