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Realistically, you can't do "data sharing of unknown types" - at that point you're just sharing binary blobs. ASN.1 and CORBA both let you share types that are
by goatinaboat 6y ago
Realistically, you can't do "data sharing of unknown types" - at that point you're just sharing binary blobs.
ASN.1 and CORBA both let you share types that are unknown ahead of receiving.
- viraptor 6y agoI don't know much corba, but in asn.1 it's basically "a field tag and a binary blob". It could be also a standard structure tagged with an unknown id, but either way I don't really see it as much more than json `{"uid": "blob-data"}` in practice. If it's unknown data, you can do almost nothing with it apart from passing it on. If I recall correctly, x509 doesn't even want to deal with any complicated tagging and embeds each extension value as a serialised DER itself.