I was searching high and low for a way to unpack what NET::LDAP was returning for an objectSID. When dumped, it was just a bunch of line noise garbage. Trying to figure out what format it was in I came across this:

Re: Getting Active Directory objectsid value using Net::LDAP - Help!

c. church says:

Looking on MSN, which describes the SID structure (urL :http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/security/Security/sid_components.asp) it seems to say this:

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