EXPLAINER/questionnaire: Ensure results are sorted #13
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Meant to address internal and external (w3ctag/design-reviews#399) feedback regarding entropy bits that system APIs could potentially add given their ordering of the font list. FYI I plan to update font-table-access with a similar PR (it returns tables) once we settle on this change. |
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This sounds like a really good idea! IMO, sorting the results makes the API more consistent across browsers, even if fingerprinting wouldn't be a concern. More normalized outputs reduce the potential for brittleness in apps. |
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Reduce fingerprinting entropy bits by ensuring that results are first sorted before being returned. This ensures that implementations of this API remove any unnecessary information from system APIs that may return a font list in some order that would otherwise add more entropy bits.
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Reduce fingerprinting entropy bits by ensuring that results are
first sorted before being returned. This ensures that implementations
of this API remove any unnecessary information from system APIs that
may return a font list in some order that would otherwise add more
entropy bits.