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The least-impact visualisation could be using colors: group the characters in the domain name by script family, then use regular colors for the largest group (s
by usrusr 10y ago
The least-impact visualisation could be using colors: group the characters in the domain name by script family, then use regular colors for the largest group (so that e.g. an all-Korean domain name would look just fine) and highlight those exotic relative to the rest.
- beaconstudios 10y agoor maybe just disallow mixed-charset domains. After all there's not much use for a domain that's partially Cyrillic and partially Latin. Not that I'm aware of anyway - and the rule could be more granular if there are legit uses.
- 01000001 10y agothis makes a lot of sense
- Prego 10y agoNo it doesn't. You can do this within the entire Cyrillic character range.
- krallja 10y agosee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14120372 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14120372 - this example uses all-Cyrillic
- beaconstudios 10y agothe point is that is reduces the number of potential variations. There would only be 1 or 2 possible visually-identical phishing domains for any latin domain, as opposed to potentially hundreds or thousands as it stands now.