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Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing
- From: Bjørn Mork
- Date: Thu Jul 28 10:07:32 2005
Phillip Vandry <vandry@TZoNE.ORG> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:47:14PM +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>> Mozilla Foundation has announced changes to Firefox concerning
>> Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) to deal with homograph spoofing
>> attacks.
>
> Does anyone else think that it's not the job of a web browser to do
> this? The web browser shouldn't even know about IDN details. The
> system's resolver library should convert non ASCII labels to the
> Punycode representation when sending querries, and convert back
> after receiving responses!
>
> Otherwise how can all my applications support IDN?
Please read RFC 3490.
Bjørn
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