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This is very similar to a notation occuring in Ronald Rivest's S-Expression proposal from 1996. https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RL96.ver-1.0.pdf https
by kazinator 3mo ago
This is very similar to a notation occuring in Ronald Rivest's S-Expression proposal from 1996.
https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RL96.ver-1.0.pdf https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RL96.ver-1.0.pdf
He has it as a hexadecimal length preceded by a pound sign (#), a colon, and the raw octet data.
- kazinator 3mo agoRight, in later drafts he changed to decimal with no # prefix: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rivest-sexp-04.html https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rivest-sexp-04.html