Chapter 12. Canonicalization Issues
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When we first began to write this chapter, we were asked whether we could use a word other than canonicalization—after all, canonicalization cannot be found in most dictionaries. However, the term is used heavily in the computer industry, and several security issues involve canonicalization problems, so we decided it was the best fit for what we describe in this chapter.
Canonicalization refers to the process of converting data into its “canonical” representation—its simplest or most basic form. Take a name, for instance:
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