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Going even further back in history, ASN.1 is also like this. It's a description language for data structures, and there are separate representations that can be
by majewsky 7y ago
Going even further back in history, ASN.1 is also like this. It's a description language for data structures, and there are separate representations that can be derived from them. It's sort of like JSON, JSON Schema and Protobuf in one.
TLS certs are encoded in ASN.1 DER, for instance, and LDAP messages are encoded in ASN.1 BER.