[Cryptography] canonicalizing unicode strings.
John Levine
johnl at taugh.com
Tue Feb 6 17:34:38 EST 2018
In article <aac5dadc-ff6e-ea14-c4d2-c10535b94141 at echeque.com>,
<jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
>> This really is a well studied topic. Anyone who cares about it should
>> go do some homework and let us know how people who've dealt with this
>> problem in the past have done. I know what the answer for the DNS is,
>> NFC and IDNA and scripts and language tables, but the DNS is an
>> unusually sparse kind of identifier.
>
>Well, I was asking where I could find writings and off the shelf solutions.
>
>It would be a whole lot easier to do my homework if you could point me
>to existing documentation and existing solutions in a more specific manner.
As I think I've said three times now, this is a complex topic and the
question is ill-formed. You cannot just "canonicalize unicode strings"
and expect to come up with a usable password system.
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