On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:22:18PM -0500, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > Interestingly, my attack works with a single character representation > (Unicode). It is not dependent on multiple charsets.
It also works with EUC-JP (and other Japanese charsets), all 8-bit Russian representations, all 8-bit Greek representations . . . > The problem needs to be fixed closer to the source. How about a solution that doesn't involve the destruction of Unicode as a useful tool? The fact that MD5 sums matching doesn't prove that the files match is not a bug in MD5 sums. Likewise, the fact that glyphs may look alike in a _character_ is not a bug in the character encoding. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED], dvdeug/jabber.com (Jabber) Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, Inc."
