Posted on December 18, 2008, 7:39 am, by IDN News, under
Blogs.
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI’s) are a new take on the old URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), which through RFC 3986 restricted domain names to a subset of ASCII characters – mainly lower and upper case letters, numbers, and some punctuation. IRI’s were forecasted many years ago by Martin Dürst and Michel Suignard, and formalized in RFC […]
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Punycode,
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RFC 3987,
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Unicode spoofing,
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UTF-8,
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Posted on December 10, 2008, 9:06 am, by Chris Weber, under
Blogs.
More on lookalikes, confusables, IDN homograph attacks, and other fun stuff, continued from the previous post.
Mixed-script confusables
These occur when letters from one alphabet or script, are used to give the same visual appearance as letters from a completely different script. For example, the following words contain a mix of Latin and Cyrillic letters […]
