[idn] Re: Unicode and Security

["Mark Davis" <mark@macchiato.com>]

I have long advocated more intelligent GUIs to help distinguish
spoofing names. I think the technique could also help for the
Traditional vs Simplified Chinese issue; to help people type in one or
the other but not mix. I coded up (very rough, I warn you) a quick
demo of what I mean. Try:

http://www.macchiato.com/utc/despoofing

Mark
—————

Πόλλ’ ἠπίστατο ἔργα, κακῶς δ’ ἠπίστατο πάντα — Ὁμήρου Μαργίτῃ
[For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr]

http://www.macchiato.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
To: <DougEwell2@cs.com>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>; <larsga@garshol.priv.no>;
<idn@ops.ietf.org>; <schneier@counterpane.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 18:28
Subject: Re: Unicode and Security


> DougEwell2@cs.com scripsit:
>
> > Let's keep going.  Latin Y, Greek Upsilon, Cyrillic U.  Wait a
minute, that
> > Cyrillic U doesn't look *quite* the same.  Oh well, it's close
enough, right?
>
> And then there's the Cyrillic U with the straight descender, whic
> actually does look just like its Latin and Greek counterparts.
> I guess we just can't afford to have two kinds of Cyrillic U around:
> off with their heads (or tails)!
>
> Unfortunately, there goes all those Turkic languages written in
Cyrillic.
> Well, they should Romanize anyway.  In fact all languages should
Romanize:
> it simplifies everything soooo much, and if we get rid of diacritics
> while we're at at it.... well, the ASCII Consortium
> (off-net, but cached in part at
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:IRueJQ1bA-4C:www.wholehog.fsnet.c
o.uk/robert/ascii/+ASCII+Consortium&hl=en)
> will find it a dream come true.  And there was much rejoicing.
>
> --
> John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
cowan@ccil.org
> To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.
There
> are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the
language
> that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was
wonderful.
>         --_The Hobbit_
>
>