This seems like an opportune time to again refer everyone to my paper on the petname toolbar.
Using the petname toolbar, users can identify web sites using their local charset and language, and as a nice bonus, become invulnerable to phishing attacks. The paper is at: http://www.waterken.com/dev/YURL/Name/ I have a proof-of-concept implementation written in Java, help producing a version for Firefox would be appreciated. Tyler --- The web-calculus is the union of REST and capability-based security: http://www.waterken.com/dev/Web/ On Feb 7, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: Duane wrote: I assume you guys know about international languages bug in URLs, but didn't see anything else on it... http://www.shmoo.com/idn/ Even effects SSL! Indeed. Unless we do something about this quick, IDN is screwed, because more and more people will switch it off, and no-one will bother registering the names, because they won't work. I have a suggestion, and will write it up tonight (hopefully). Gerv _______________________________________________ Mozilla-security mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security _______________________________________________ Mozilla-security mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security
