Re: The security of deflate-compressed streams with uncompressed-length field
Willem van Schaik <[email protected]>
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> > I'm a dude, and I decompress zTXt. So dudes do decompress zTXt. > Alex and I did of course implement zTXt in pngtopnm and I did in many other programs "because we had to". That is my problem !! My software has to decompress because it is part of the standard. But I would strongly prefer not having to exercise that option because it is not part of the spec !! I don't want us to repeat that mistake ... we're now 20 years later with plenty of compute resources. Willem On 2017-02-05 23:15, Cosmin Truta wrote: > On 6 February 2017 at 00:14, John Bowler wrote: >> Willem's point stands; considerably rephrased, dudes don't decompress zTXt. > > I'm a dude, and I decompress zTXt. So dudes do decompress zTXt. > > But more importantly, Willem's character attack worked. So it was > baseless, but not pointless, after all. I truly had enough commotion, > and I am out of this EXIF debate. > > I will just use my right to vote, and I will vote according to my conscience. > > Sincerely, > Cosmin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > png-mng-misc mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/png-mng-misc > > -- Willem van Schaik [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot