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ASN was invented for this 30 years ago. Runs like protobuffers are just re-inventing it. Arbitrary sized numbers were in there from the start.
by mianos 9y ago
ASN was invented for this 30 years ago. Runs like protobuffers are just re-inventing it. Arbitrary sized numbers were in there from the start.
- blattimwind 9y agoASN.1 is also rather complex and the most widely used encoding rules have been shown many times to be rather difficult to implement correctly and securely [1]. X.696 (OER) is said to be better, but it is only around since a few years (!). [1] A property shared by many IT industry standards.