- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:57:22 +0100
- To: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@adobe.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach Thomas Phinney:
> But the concern of most font makers is not keeping fonts locked in
> a perfect vault, just keeping the strong majority of users honest.
> I personally, and folks from most font foundries, believe that even
> light obfuscation which requires some special tool to break it,
> will achieve that goal.
This is good compromise, I believe. We identify a few strategic bytes
in TTF/OT files, and XOR them. This makes them uninstallable without
special tools.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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