Beyond Visual Confusion: Understanding How Inconsistencies in ENS Normalization Facilitate Homoglyph Attacks

Shows that ENS homoglyph attacks are not only a visual-similarity problem but also a normalization-inconsistency problem: different clients and resolvers disagree on how to canonicalize a name, and the disagreement itself is exploitable.

Recommended citation: Jiajun Huang, Sai Ravan Chintapalli, Mengxiao Wang, and Guofei Gu. (2025). "Beyond Visual Confusion: Understanding How Inconsistencies in ENS Normalization Facilitate Homoglyph Attacks." Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025.