Multiple choice technology security

What is meant by Canonicalization?

  1. Its a form of encoding

  2. Its a form of encryption

  3. Its a form of decryption

  4. Its simply the operation of reducing a possibly encoded string down to its simplest form
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Explanation

Canonicalization is the process of converting data to a standard or canonical form. For security, it means reducing encoded strings (like %3C for <) to their simplest representation before validation. This prevents attackers from bypassing validation using double-encoding or alternate encoding schemes.

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