IDN with Gemini?

Adnan Maolood me at adnano.co
Mon Dec 7 18:13:17 GMT 2020


On Mon Dec 7, 2020 at 7:30 AM EST, marc wrote:
> Using unicode in addresses balkanises this global space into
> separate little domains, with subtle ambiguities (is the
> cyrilic C the same as a latin - C, who knows ?), reducing
> security, and making crossover harder.

I don't think that using unicode in addresses would decrease security
because of the way that Gemini handles client authentication. Since
client certificates are limited to certain domains and paths, the
certificate will never be applied to the wrong domain, even if it looks
the same to the user.


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