Gaspar Sinai wrote:

> I was thinking about the future of Unicode in the age of
> digital signatures. I had the following questions in my head:
> 
> 1. Is Unicode secure? If it is not secure, can it be made secure?
>   This question is important because people may want to sign
>   text files in their own languuage. They want to send unambiguous
>   emails too. An unsecure standard/system with social engineering
>   would undermine national security.

Is this really a Unicode problem?  ASCII already has security problems
because of the backspace character.  The text in the next line looks
different depending on what you use to look at it:

        _U_n_d_e_r_l_i__n_e yesno!

Isn't this more a problem of the tool used to view the file than of the
encoding?

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