I will probably look into LZMA in the next quarter in combination with 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559

/cd

On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Jonathan Kew <[email protected]> wrote:

> I notice that we don't currently use LZMA (de)compression anywhere in Gecko, 
> AFAICS.
> 
> The proposed WOFF 2.0 format[1], under discussion in the W3C webfonts working 
> group, includes the use of the LZMA entropy coder as a better-compressing 
> alternative to zlib.
> 
> If the proposed spec goes forward and we implement this, it will mean 
> exposing the LZMA decoder to untrusted data from the Web (i.e. webfont 
> resources). Do we have any insight into the reliability/security of the LZMA 
> code[2], or any experience of testing (fuzzing, etc) to determine whether we 
> can safely use this library in a web-exposed way?
> 
> Any insight or advice would be welcome...
> 
> JK
> 
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/2012JanMar/0002.html
> [2] http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html
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