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@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ phishing/spoofing of IDs, commonly known as a homograph attack.
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Web browers encountered this problem when International Domain Names were
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introduced. A variety of checks were put in place in order to protect users. If
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an address failed the check, the raw punycode would be displayed to disambiguate
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the address. Similar checks are performed by home servers in Matrix. However,
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Matrix does not use punycode representations, and so does not show raw punycode
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on a failed check. Instead, home servers must outright reject these misleading
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IDs.
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an address failed the check, the raw punycode would be displayed to
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disambiguate the address. Similar checks are performed by home servers in
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Matrix. However, Matrix does not use punycode representations, and so does not
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show raw punycode on a failed check. Instead, home servers must outright reject
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these misleading IDs.
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Types of human-readable IDs
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@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ Checks
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- Language sets from CLDR dataset.
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- Treated in segments (localpart, domain)
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- Additional restrictions for ease of processing IDs.
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- Room alias localparts MUST NOT have ``#`` or ``:``.
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- User ID localparts MUST NOT have ``@`` or ``:``.
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- Room alias localparts MUST NOT have ``#`` or ``:``.
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- User ID localparts MUST NOT have ``@`` or ``:``.
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Rejecting
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ID". Problem: clients can just ignore it, and since it will appear only very
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rarely, easy to forget when implementing clients.
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- Moderate security: Requires client handshake. Forces clients to implement
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a check, else they cannot communicate with the misleading ID. However, this is
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extra overhead in both client implementations and round-trips.
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a check, else they cannot communicate with the misleading ID. However, this
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is extra overhead in both client implementations and round-trips.
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- High security: Outright rejection of the ID at the point of creation /
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receiving event. Point of creation rejection is preferable to avoid the ID
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entering the system in the first place. However, malicious HSes can just allow
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the ID. Hence, other home servers must reject them if they see them in events.
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Client never sees the problem ID, provided the HS is correctly implemented.
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entering the system in the first place. However, malicious HSes can just
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allow the ID. Hence, other home servers must reject them if they see them in
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events. Client never sees the problem ID, provided the HS is correctly
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implemented.
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- High security decided; client doesn't need to worry about it, no additional
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protocol complexity aside from rejection of an event.
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