X SECURITY: allowed extensions for untrusted clients

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Sun Oct 15 23:46:26 UTC 2017


"Uecker, Martin" <Martin.Uecker at med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:

> The question is what security risks all the different extensions
> may expose.

For things like Render and Present, they're no more serious than the
existing core protocol. I'm pretty sure we could list the extensions
which provide core-like functionality in an improved form and separate
those from extensions which provide new functionality.

-- 
-keith
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