
Ep 202: CNC Monks, Acrobot, Bootleg Merch, and the Rise and Fall of Megahex
Hackaday Podcast
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The IDN Homograph Attack
It uses actually a base 36 so just A through Z and then 0 through 9 and encodes the otherwise unprintable characters that way. It's really crazy looking and makes it kind of unreadable if you don't have something to do the decoding for you. The advantage of puny code is that what it does is it lets you encode Unicode in an ASCII safe string set which for instance would work with the domain name system the DNS system.
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