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New IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine)

New IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine)

Posted Feb 22, 2005 0:43 UTC (Tue) by fjf33 (subscriber, #5768)
Parent article: New IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine)

I like this solution a LOT better than some I have seen floating around. There is no collision between punycode and the regular ANSI I hope. But even then it probably is a margin case anyways. I wonder if typing in unicode in the browser bar will be OK or people will have to write in punycode. There are people that actually use IDN domains.


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/And/ another thing...

Posted Feb 22, 2005 17:20 UTC (Tue) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link]

There is no collision between punycode and the regular ANSI I hope.

Punycode is certainly ugly, but by definition it's in ASCII---see bk's example for pàypal.com, above.

So, when everyone's used to seeing funky URLs in Unicode, all you need do is register the domain `ax--qrmasdflkh-v9.com', and no one will give it a second glance.

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