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Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:09:22 +0900
Neil Harris wrote:
Techniques to deal with this sort of spoofing already exist: see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html
It does not make sense that .COM allows Cyrillic characters: http://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables/tables/com_cyrl_1.0.html i script of a domain name is Cyrillic. Domain names do not have such property as script. Is the following domain name: CCC.COM Latin or Cyrillic?
for one quite effective approach.
The only reasonable thing to do is to disable so called IDN. Masataka Ohta PS Isn't it obvious from the page you referred that IDN is not internationalization but an uncoordinated collection of poor localizations?
Current thread:
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing, (continued)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Robert E. Seastrom (Feb 15)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Mark Andrews (Feb 15)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Eric Brunner-Williams (Feb 15)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing bmanning (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Masataka Ohta (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Steven Bellovin (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing John Levine (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Christian de Larrinaga (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing John R. Levine (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Jeff Kell (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Masataka Ohta (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Neil Harris (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Sven Olaf Kamphuis (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Joel jaeggli (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing David Conrad (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Sven Olaf Kamphuis (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Masataka Ohta (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Masataka Ohta (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Adrian (Feb 10)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 10)