Re: [ft-devel] Digital signatures

[David Somers]

On Thursday 25 August 2005 17:18, Turner, David wrote:
> My opinion is that the DSIG table is the brain-child of DRM-obsessed
> managers at Microsoft Typography (or above), who don't understand much
> things regarding security.

Managers rarely understand these things ;-)

> If digital signatures are not mandatory _and_ used with non-reversible
> encryption, they're simply useless.

As signed font can be thought of as the equivalent of a signed (but 
unencrypted) email message (its done using more-or-less the same system).

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