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Protocol buffers is a tag-length-value encoding. It's got all the problems that DER and CER have. It's what happens when people decide to reinvent a wheel the
by cryptonector 5y ago
Protocol buffers is a tag-length-value encoding. It's got all the problems that DER and CER have. It's what happens when people decide to reinvent a wheel they don't understand.
- oblio 5y agoYou should write a blogpost at this point. You can write more about these problems and it would have higher visibility.
- cryptonector 5y agoGood point. I might, yes.
- feffe 5y agoWhat are the issues with TLV? I guess one could be that it's difficult to modify messages. On the other hand skipping parts of a message is efficient.
- cryptonector 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937046 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937046