[Cryptography] canonicalizing unicode strings.

[John Levine]

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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