The recent discussions of this list about Internet domain name
spoofing through substitution of Unicode characters that have similar,
or identical, glyphs is an issue that has recently appeared in print
in a prominent journal:
@String{j-CACM = "Communications of the ACM"}
@Article{Gabrilovich:2002:IRH,
author = "Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Alex Gontmakher",
title = "Inside risks: The homograph attack",
journal = j-CACM,
volume = "45",
number = "2",
pages = "128--128",
month = feb,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "CACMA2",
ISSN = "0001-0782",
bibdate = "Wed Jan 30 17:45:01 MST 2002",
bibsource = "http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/journals/cacm/";,
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}
Bruce Schneier also discussed this in the 15-Mar-2001, 15-Jul-2001,
15-Sep-2001, and 15-Nov-2001 issues of the CRYPTO-GRAM newsletter
(available at
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html
) and gave these links for more info:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21573.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3461
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0007.html#9
http://www.securityfocus.com/focus/ids/articles/utf8.html
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