Re: [Full-Disclosure] state of homograph attacks

2005-02-06 Thread Simon Roberts
FYI, in case anyone hadn't worked it out yet, the provided demo works against Konqueror 3.2.1 on KDE 3.2.1 on Suse Linux too. Pasting the given URL into vi doesn't show the problem, but view page source (which brings up the page in KWrite) and "od -xc" do expose the attack. Cheers, Simon --- [EM

Re: [Full-Disclosure] state of homograph attacks

2005-02-07 Thread Gerald Holl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > V.Workaround > > You can disable IDN support in mozilla products by setting > 'network.enableIDN' to false. There is no workaround known for Opera or > Safari. Hello, I use Firefox 1.0 on GNU/Linux but the workaround doesn't work if I close the browser. No idea wh

Re: [Full-Disclosure] state of homograph attacks

2005-02-07 Thread Richard Jacobsen
For some reason, manually adding it to prefs.js with a text editor did not work for me. However, configuring it from about:config worked for me. Open up firefox, put about:config into the address bar, and then change network.enableIDN to false by double clicking on it. If it is working successf

Re: [Full-Disclosure] state of homograph attacks

2005-02-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:06:18 PST, Richard Jacobsen said: > Open up firefox, put about:config into the address bar, and then change > network.enableIDN to false by double clicking on it. If it is working > successfully, you should get a message "domainname.com could not be found" > when clicking

Re: [Full-Disclosure] state of homograph attacks

2005-02-07 Thread Markus Wernig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:06:18 PST, Richard Jacobsen said: | | |>Open up firefox, put about:config into the address bar, and then change |>network.enableIDN to false by double clicking on it. If it is working |>successfully, yo

Re: [Full-Disclosure] state of homograph attacks

2005-02-07 Thread Nick FitzGerald
Valdis Kletnieks wrote: > The actual bug referenced by Gerald is that if you use about:config to set it, > it *works* without having to restart, but at the next restart of the browser, > the setting no longer works... At least in the standard (binary distribution) Windows build of Mozilla 1.0 th

Re: [Full-Disclosure] state of homograph attacks

2005-02-07 Thread Peter Besenbruch
Markus Wernig wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:06:18 PST, Richard Jacobsen said: | | |>Open up firefox, put about:config into the address bar, and then change |>network.enableIDN to false by double clicking on it. If it is worki

Re: [Full-Disclosure] state of homograph attacks

2005-02-07 Thread Markus Wernig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Besenbruch wrote: | Markus Wernig wrote: | |> Yes, it does set network.enableIDN = false, but on startup this seems to |> get ignored. What I had to do to disable it (probably a brute hack): |> there's a line in ~/.mozilla/firefox/whatever.default

RE: [Full-Disclosure] state of homograph attacks

2005-02-08 Thread Aditya Deshmukh
>The actual bug referenced by Gerald is that if you use >about:config to set it, >it *works* without having to restart, but at the next restart >of the browser, >the setting no longer works... Isnt there a way to make this survive browser restarts ? ___