Re: quick & dirty (but not too dirty) homograph defense
Erik van der Poel <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:31:21 -0800
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tedd wrote: > Well... the problem is not totally Versign's, is it? I agree. Part of the problem is upstream from VeriSign. > Case in point, the lower and upper case omega. Clearly the upper case > omega would not be confused with any other glyph -- it's unique. That may be true, but would the users like to see an upper case omega in the middle of a name? Don't get me wrong -- I appreciate the example -- but there are pros and cons to everything. > As I understand it, this would only require a change in mapping. That > should solve at least one "glyph look-alike" problem -- shouldn't it? Wouldn't this require a new ACE prefix? Erik