A review of my experience with Bitwarden after several years of self-hosting it, and why I decided to move away from the password manager.
Note: this is not my article.
A review of my experience with Bitwarden after several years of self-hosting it, and why I decided to move away from the password manager.
Note: this is not my article.
If the domain starts with
xn-it’s a telltale sign, that it’s a punycode domain name. Read: it does contain characters that are not ASCII characters. This is done as domains need to be ASCII only. The format of these domains is usuallyxn--allASCIIcharacters-allNonASCIIcharactersEncoded.tld. Example:täst.comisxn--tst-qla.com.If you manually type such a domain (containing characters like äöüéèçč…), many browsers will still display what you entered, but convert the domain into punycode in the background before connecting.
You can decode the domain of this post and it results in
マリウス.com.Thats interesting! And my translation addon says it translates to “Marius”
They don’t need to, but a punycode-attack is done by using a letter of another language that looks almost identical. I think you still have to actively enable the defense against it (some about:config setting), the poster did.
DNS is ASCII only and so this conversion is done. It is not needed to display the “technical” domain name that results when you enter a domain name with non ASCII chars in apps, but yes, this prevents character confusion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name