Levenshtein distance on MEW

[409H]

Implement a Levenshtein distance algorithm to detect similar hostnames to that of myetherwallet.com.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

This should help detect against myet.herwallet.com and myeth.erwallet.com type of impersonations.

To discuss

• An acceptable edit distance
• If there is >= x edit distance, should we disable interaction with the domain or just show a warning?

cc: @tayvano

[409H]

@sogoiii what's your twitter? I'd like to add your handle when I tweet about the update, if I may

[sogoiii]

sure, my twitter handle is @angellopozo i'm the co-founder @hellosugoi as well :)

[409H]

Awesome - will mention both (or 1 depending on char limit) as soon as I've gone over the release again and published to the store 😺

[sogoiii]

yea no prob. Ill retweet it as well.