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 operation of reducing a possibly encoded string down to its simplest form. It's used in security to normalize input data by decoding all encoding layers, allowing for consistent validation. This helps prevent attacks that use multiple encoding layers to bypass security checks, such as double encoding or mixed encoding schemes.

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