Re: A way forward

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Sylvain Galineau
<sylvaing@microsoft.com>wrote:

>    On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Sylvain Galineau <
> sylvaing@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> To make sure we are on the same page, EOT-Lite means:
> 1. Raw font files are prefixed with a well-known binary header;
> 2. The user agent reads the parts of the header necessary to:
>        a. Determine its length;
>        b. Verify its validity e.g. ensure the rootstring field is null;
> 3. The user agent then proceeds to skip this header and treat the remainder
> of the resource as
> it would a reference to its raw equivalent.
>
>
>
> Is "XOR encryption" permitted by EOT-Lite? Because Ascender's
> just-announced "EOT Lite Wrap Tool" optionally applies "XOR encryption", and
> presumably authors will expect the results to still be "EOT Lite".
>
>  It seems to be the case in Ascender’s initial iteration. Can you
> elaborate on the concern ? I’m not attached to it, personally.
>
>
>

I'm just trying to identify precisely what EOT-Lite is. There seems to be
some confusion among its proponents. You've been telling us all we have to
do to process EOT-lite is check and skip some header bytes, Ascender says we
may have to XOR the payload as well.

Rob
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