Re: IDN problem.... :(

From: Adam Twardoch (list.adam@twardoch.com)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2005 - 18:27:17 CST

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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "John Hudson" <tiro@tiro.com>

    > The security issue is simply due to the fact that some characters
    > typically look identical to other characters. So change the appearance.

    Nah. It's poor design of IDN. They should have disallowed mixing characters
    from different scripts in one URL. It wouldn't have ruled out all of the
    problems, but most of them.

    A.



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