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Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing
From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:04:13 +0200
* Jason Sloderbeck:
Yes, it's recognized by Mozilla and others as the job of the Internet Architecture Board (in particular, the IAB-IDN group) to make a final decision on how to deal with homographs.
Homographs are a classical example of a PR attack. It's a complete non-issue. In practice, people don't use domain names to assess the credibility of web sites. 1/l/I and 0/O are homographs as well, and the Internet hasn't collapsed as a result. The really stunning thing about the whole mess is that nobody seems to grasp that technically, TLDs are not in a position to restrict name server operators to any character sets in the domain names they use. After all, I can add any domain name I want to my zone files.
Current thread:
- RE: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing Jason Sloderbeck (Jul 28)
- Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing Florian Weimer (Jul 28)
- Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing Neil Harris (Jul 28)
- Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing Florian Weimer (Jul 28)
- Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homographs Spoofing John Levine (Jul 28)
- Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homographs Spoofing Neil Harris (Jul 28)
- Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing Neil Harris (Jul 28)
- identical-glyph homographs (was Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist...) Todd Vierling (Jul 28)
- Re: identical-glyph homographs Florian Weimer (Jul 28)
- Re: identical-glyph homographs Todd Vierling (Jul 28)
- Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing Florian Weimer (Jul 28)