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Re: [idn] Internet Draft uname.txt
- To: "Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@walid.com>, <idn@ops.ietf.org>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Internet Draft uname.txt
- From: "James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:47:24 +0800
- Delivery-date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:48:47 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
> c. It might be possible to construct a binary string in some legacy
> encoding which gives the same binary representation for another domain
> name (a.k.a. binary collision).
>
> This is a big problem in my mind. Sending unidentified codepage
data
> could create all sorts of opportunities for spoofing, and more mundane
> problems like DNS caches giving out the wrong answer.
Yes. So the workaround would involve preventing binary collision in the
first place.
-James Seng