Re: CALL for DISCUSSION: eXIf 20170115

John Bowler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Glenn Randers-Pehrson
<[email protected]> wrote:
.  As I said, in the long run I'll
> probably
> use the code that's already existing in libpng for iCCP decoding.

That would be impossible.  ICC profiles start with a "profile length"
field.  The code uses that to head off all the security issues at the
pass.

You seem totally set on compressing it regardless of any advice to the
contrary.  Are you going to enhance libpng 1.2?

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