[cabfpub] ICU library patch for Unicode spoof checks

Rick Andrews Rick_Andrews at symantec.com
Wed Mar 27 18:01:10 MST 2013


Brad,

I believe the competing patch is this one: http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/9440

Can you point me toward info on how to checkout and build the library, and where SpoofChecker is documented?

-Rick

From: public-bounces at cabforum.org [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org] On Behalf Of Hill, Brad
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 9:09 AM
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Subject: [cabfpub] ICU library patch for Unicode spoof checks

Should be available in v51.1, http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/milestone/51.1%20(release)

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/7645

They accepted a "competing" patch submitted by Google as theirs also included C++ code, but theirs didn't include the bidirectional text requirement.

That is extremely simple to implement by simply forbidding the following code points (punycode encoded or native) in hostnames:

LRE:  U+202A
RLE:  U+202B
PDF: U+202C
LRO: U+202D
RLO: U+202E

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