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<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
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<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
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"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
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and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
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    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
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Contributors: 
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<!DOCTYPE concept
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  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
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<concept id="GUID-EDA831F7-7248-5C00-B6BE-B7F44097C9B6" xml:lang="en"><title>WhiteList/BlackList
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TLD Services Overview</title><shortdesc>This document introduces the Whitelist/Blacklist Top-Level Domain
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services of the InetURIList framework. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
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<p>International domain names support increases the vulnerability of the device
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to homograph attacks (also called phishing), by allowing addresses (URIs)
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to contain UTF-8 characters. By using non-ASCII characters that are visually
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similar to familiar letters, attacks can lead the Internet user to harmful
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sites. </p>
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<p>To address this issue, the InetURIList framework provides a list of suspect
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characters (a BlackList) for each top-level domain (TLD). The framework also
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lists trusted characters in TLD-specific WhiteLists. This enables applications
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to detect safe and unsafe URIs depending on their top-level domain and the
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characters they contain. </p>
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<p>The Blacklists and Whitelists are stored in an XML file installed on the
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device. You can replace the default TLD policy file by installing an SIS package
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containing the updated lists. </p>
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<p>Applications can query the TLD list but cannot dynamically change its contents. </p>
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</conbody><related-links>
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<link href="GUID-E97C2A7E-8E8F-58E6-99D4-288589385B44.dita"><linktext> Querying
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the TLD policy data </linktext></link>
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<link href="GUID-AC4C18D1-D6A3-5988-AB10-5A5025183950.dita"><linktext> Modifying
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the TLD policy data</linktext></link>
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<link href="GUID-6A78F618-09A9-56A7-8C58-98C353BF0788.dita"><linktext>What is the
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Domain Name Server?</linktext></link>
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</related-links></concept>