At 7:44 PM +0100 7/16/03, Nick Lamb wrote:
the compression routines used by gzip and ZIP are generic text compression
techniques,
Actually, the Flate algorithm is a "general purpose"
compression algorithm - it is no better on text than on binary data.
they don't understand interleaved formats
At 5:35 PM +0200 7/16/03, Sven Neumann wrote:
I don't think we should use a compressed archive. Instead the binary
data in the archive should be compressed.
I agree - and that's what ZIP/JAR allow for - some
files/blobs are compressed, and some are not. You could either use
the built-in methods
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:27:12PM -0400, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>- to be able to execute some Java code out of a (virus-altered) GIMP
> image (Gimp Graphics Archive) takes:
> * a person running "java -jar picture.gga"
> * some "smart" program looking inside the image, recogniz
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:12:37 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tino Schwarze)
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +0200, Marc A. Lehmann wrote:
> > >What happens if in the future someone writes a gimp-java interface
> > >(like gimp-perl)? Would there be any security issues there?
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:35:42PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:
> I don't think we should use a compressed archive. Instead the binary
> data in the archive should be compressed. That allows to choose the
> best compression scheme for the data and to combine different
> compression techniques in the
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tino Schwarze) writes:
> I think, the security argument against JAR is very far-fetched.
> A JAR is basically a ZIP with a META-INF directory containing a
> MANIFEST.MF file. That's it.
>
> There is a lot of code around for creating / reading ZIP files - I'm a
> bit worried
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +0200, Marc A. Lehmann wrote:
> > >What happens if in the future someone writes a gimp-java interface
> > >(like gimp-perl)? Would there be any security issues there?
> >
> > No.
>
> "I do not believe people like you."
>
> Sorry, but how can you so
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:57:09PM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >the ar file format is much better established then jar, quick to access
> >(unlike jar), and very very very much simpler.
>
> Excuse me?!?! JAR is used by every Java implementation in
> existence, an
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:16:28AM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 08:38 AM 7/14/2003 -0400, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> >What happens if in the future someone writes a gimp-java interface
> >(like gimp-perl)? Would there be any security issues there?
>
> No.
"I do
At 08:38 AM 7/14/2003 -0400, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
What happens if in the future someone writes a gimp-java interface
(like gimp-perl)? Would there be any security issues there?
No.
Leonard
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:30:45 -0400
From: Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 7:16 AM -0500 7/14/03, Stephen J Baker wrote:
>One issue we should at least think about with JAR is that since it
>*is* the JAVA library mechanism, there is perhaps a risk of
>allowing virus wri
At 7:16 AM -0500 7/14/03, Stephen J Baker wrote:
One issue we should at least think about with JAR is that since it *is*
the JAVA library mechanism, there is perhaps a risk of allowing virus writers
to attach bits of JAVA executable in what *appears* to be a GIMP image.
If you don't open up the JA
Sven Neumann wrote:
Excuse me?!?! JAR is used by every Java implementation in
existence, and since it is 100% compatible with ZIP, means you have
all of those implementations as well.
Java is not exactly what I would call well established, but that's not
a relevant argument here.
One i
Hi,
Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Excuse me?!?! JAR is used by every Java implementation in
> existence, and since it is 100% compatible with ZIP, means you have
> all of those implementations as well.
Java is not exactly what I would call well established, but that's n
At 1:38 AM +0200 7/12/03, Marc wrote:
> A JAR is a special type of ZIP archive, which contains one or more
> "data files" along with an XML "manifest" about the contents.
the ar file format is much better established then jar, quick to access
(unlike jar), and very very very much simpler.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:08:55AM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A JAR is a special type of ZIP archive, which contains one or more
> "data files" along with an XML "manifest" about the contents. I've worked
> on a number of projects (both commercial and "open")
At 02:34 PM 7/11/2003 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:
XML is very well suited to describe the structure of a multi-layered,
multi-framed image/animation and it can be used perfectly to embed
meta information as well as vector layers, paths and the like. XML
namespaces make it easy to add application-spe
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