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Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs.
- To: Tosoni <jean-pierre.tosoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs.
- From: Riccardo Murri <murri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:56:48 +0100
[Tosoni, Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:20:22AM +0000]
> Back to the original problem, shouldn't the browser check that the
> domain name sought by the user, is only composed from existing keys on
> the user's keyboard, and alert the user otherwise ?
That would restrict US keyboard users from surfing websites with
names from almost any non-English language...
It would probably be a good way to boycott IDN :)
Riccardo