Alexander Gelfenbain wrote on 2002-03-04 22:04 UTC:
> In addition to that we were considering adding a rich security
> model with font certificates (public/private key pairs) and permissions, 
> but decided to do it in the second version, as soon as we implement font
> sharing between ST Server running on different machines and make
> ST Font Server speak SLP.

What threats exactly shall this security model protect against?

Are there highly font-specific security concerns that can't be addressed
by existing more generic X11 access control mechanisms?

Developping an entire public key infrastructure separately for something
as specialized as a font rendering API sounds like megabloat to me, but
perhaps I just misunderstood the suggestion.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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