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Doesn the removal of symbols and punctuation in IDNA2008 help security?

April 26, 2017help idna2008 punctuation Removal security Symbols

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Doesn the removal of symbols and punctuation in IDNA2008 help security?

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Surprisingly, not really. The vast majority of security exploits are of the form “security-wellsfargo.com”, where no special characters are involved. For more information, see idn-et-phishing (French or machine-translated).