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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 13:30:46 +0000
From: "Leonid Isaev (ifax)" <leonid.isaev@...x.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Trojan Source Attacks

On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 01:36:37PM +0200, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> Similar attack is known, search the web for "homograph attack"
> or check:  https://dev.to/logan/homographs-attack--5a1p
> 
> The basic idea is that Cyrillic M-PM-^P looks like Latin A.
> 
> Can you tell first from second:
> True   M-PM-"rue
> False  FM-PM-0lse
> Zero   ZM-PM-5ro
> google gM-PM->M-PM->gle

Yeah. And this is why when replying, my mutt(1) is configured to pipe messages
to "cat -v" before launching vi(1)...

Sincerely,
L.

-- 
Leonid Isaev

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