[guardian-dev] Straw poll for ostel.co feature

Cooper Quintin cooper at radicaldesigns.org
Mon Jun 24 13:47:22 EDT 2013


No for the security reasons Nate mentioned and also for usability.
Having utf-8 user names could make it very hard / impossible for someone
to 'dial' someones username on a mobile application.

Cooper Quintin
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On 06/24/2013 09:58 AM, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> 
> 
> Lee Azzarello <lee at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> 
>> Originally written on IRC
>>
>> <SteeleNivenson> straw poll:
>> <SteeleNivenson> based on the fact that SIP usernames support UTF-8
>> and are case sensitive
>> * SteeleNivenson ref:
>> https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/sip-implementors/2005-June/009559.html
>> <SteeleNivenson> should usernames at ostel.co continue to observe this
>> part of the standard?
>> <SteeleNivenson> yea or nay?
> 
> No. I think it creates an opportunity for impersonation. I would also disable Unicode, as similar looking character substitutions are easily possible. 
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