- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:29:44 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Peter Karlsson wrote: > >> > >> I don't think forbidding BOCU-1 is a good idea. If there is ever a > >> proper specification written of it, it could be very useful as a > >> compression format for documents. > > > > BOCU-1 has been used for security attacks. It's on the "no fly" list. > > Do you have any references on that, or are you thinking about SCSU > (which suffers from the problem of having several valid compressions for > each string)? Not off-hand. I'm not confusing it with SCSU, which is also disallowed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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