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Re: [idn] homograph attacks
- To: "Erik van der Poel" <erik@vanderpoel.org>, "William Tan" <wil@dready.org>
- Subject: Re: [idn] homograph attacks
- From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:36:28 -0800
- Cc: "Michel Suignard" <michelsu@windows.microsoft.com>, Martin v. LÃwis <martin@v.loewis.de>, "Kane, Pat" <pkane@verisign.com>, <idn@ops.ietf.org>, <ericj@shmoo.com>, "tedd" <tedd@sperling.com>, <dam@icann.org>, <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
- References: <FD16260E2EDF204E80A22FB904A425C30BD0A0CF@WIN-MSG-10.wingroup.windeploy.ntdev.microsoft.com> <4214ABF5.3080700@dready.org> <4214C445.9070106@vanderpoel.org>
Erik van der Poel <erik at vanderpoel dot org> wrote:
>> For a gTLD, the language tag comes in handy, so we
>> could apply different language tables to IDNs according to their
>> intended language.
>
> This is not really in the spirit of DNS itself, though. Before IDN was
> invented, people registered domain names that weren't in any language.
> For example, the name "microsoft" was not a word in any language when
> it was first introduced.
I hope Erik is able to get this message across, because I haven't,
despite many attempts.
For each of the following domain names, determine the "intended
language":
* google
* altavista
* yahoo
* m-w
* taco (this one may surprise you)
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/