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Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:13:16 +0200
On 19-jul-2005, at 15:03, Brad Knowles wrote:
The public key crypto that powers the authentication in SSL.
But that has nothing to do with the DNS.
:-) That's exactly the point: DNS tricks won't buy you anything (except denial of service) in the presence of SSL.
"protecting" users agains the fact that similar looking/sounding names actually map to completely different things ultimately can't be done, so it's better to not do it at all so users get burned by relatively harmless examples of this phenomenon (www.gougle.com and the like) so they understand it and foster the appropriate level of distrust.
Actually, that's a statement that I can agree with.
Excellent.
My point was that, if you're going to try to protect the users against homophone/homograph attacks, you need to do it in a standardized way.
And my point is, that in the absence of a standardized way a non- standardized way will do temporarily.
Morover, the standards for controlling that need to be held by separate entities from those who are creating the tools which will implement those standards -- witness Microsoft's recent downgrading of Claria/Gator as a malware vendor, simply because they're looking at buying the company.
Sure, why not. I'm not convinced it will help, though. (Giving in to the conspiracy theorists doesn't work: they'll just think it's a conspiracy.)
Current thread:
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed, (continued)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Brad Knowles (Jul 18)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 18)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Brad Knowles (Jul 18)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Crist Clark (Jul 18)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 18)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Crist Clark (Jul 18)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 19)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Brad Knowles (Jul 19)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 19)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Brad Knowles (Jul 19)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 19)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Neil Harris (Jul 19)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Crist Clark (Jul 19)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Crist Clark (Jul 19)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Neil Harris (Jul 19)
- Re: lo0kal1ke domains, Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed John Levine (Jul 19)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 18)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Neil Harris (Jul 18)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Brad Knowles (Jul 18)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 18)
- Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed Randy Bush (Jul 19)