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> Protobuf, flatbuffer, capnproto, and the like keep reinventing ASN.1. This is a strange argument in the context of your other complaints (which I largely agr
by creshal 4y ago
> Protobuf, flatbuffer, capnproto, and the like keep reinventing ASN.1.
This is a strange argument in the context of your other complaints (which I largely agree with fwiw). All of them are much safer to parse than ASN.1, which has been a decades long security nightmare, and add additional security concepts on top.
Never mind that they're also networked IPC protocols on top of binary serialisation formats, solving a host of security issues we've had with exchanging serialized Java/Python/PHP objects over the wire, DCOM, etc. pp.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't?