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A rewrite of a webp decoder into Rust already exists (image-rs has a decoder for webp). I'm sure there is some polishing needed but it's nothing a company the s
by est31 3y ago
A rewrite of a webp decoder into Rust already exists (image-rs has a decoder for webp). I'm sure there is some polishing needed but it's nothing a company the size of Google can't afford.
- Yeroc 3y agoUnfortunately, the readme for image-rs indicates that webp support is provided via the libwebp C library!
- tedunangst 3y agoOnly for encoding.
- est31 3y agoThat's for the encoding part. The 0day we are talking about was in the webp decoder, and decoders generally are the riskier component compared to encoders. I'm not sure if Chrome ships with the webp encoder at all.