Re: IDN spoofing

"Doug Ewell" <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:52:06 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.idn
Message-ID <044e01c5185f$97d97da0$030aa8c0@DEWELL>
Once more from Hans Aberg <haberg at math dot su dot se>:

> ... For example, Latin and Greek "A" are equal. Then this forces
> lowercase "a" and alpha top become equivalent, despite the fact that
> no-one familiar with these scripts will confuse them.

Not everyone is familiar with all these scripts, or expects them to
appear arbitrarily mixed. That's why there's a spoofing problem.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/