Confusables.txt might be too sensitive

Sławomir Osipiuk sosipiuk at gmail.com
Mon Jun 7 13:22:19 CDT 2021


On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 2:02 PM Doug Ewell via Unicode
<unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:
> >
> > All the other latin letters ARE listed as confusable.
>
> But not in confusables.txt. It's entirely likely, as Mark Dawson surmised, that the MetaMask people simply grabbed that one file and used it as their entire security strategy.

D'oh! I was looking at
http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/latest/confusablesSummary.txt
(linked in Mark Dawson's original message) rather than at
http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/latest/confusables.txt

It's definitely more understandable what is happening with the latter.


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