RE: [ft-devel] Digital signatures

[George Williams]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 08:18, Turner, David wrote:
> There is thus a _real_ risk that on this system, a buggy font may crash
> your system. 
:-) I think I recall someone, back in about 1960, came up with this neat
idea called a process where crashing the process did not crash the
system. I wonder if MS has heard of them...

> If digital signatures are not mandatory _and_ used with non-reversible
> encryption, they're simply useless.
That was basically what I thought. Glad to have it confirmed.