Damn if SPKI had won out we would be parsing S-expressions instead of X.509
certificates. ASN.1 is not fun IMHO.
> On Jan 19, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Gavin Andresen <ga...@bitcoinfoundation.org>
> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net> wrote:
>>> OK, I guess we can boil this down more simply. BIP 70 uses protocol buffers
>>> because I designed it and implemented the original prototype (with lots of
>>> input from Gavin and an earlier proposal by sipa). I used protocol buffers
>>> because, beyond all their nice properties, I used to work at Google and so
>>> was very familiar with them.
>
>
> What Mike said. Runner-up for encoding was JSON.
>
> XML+ASN.1 was Right Out, because lots of us hate XML and ASN.1 with a burning
> passion. Complexity is the Enemy of Security, and both XML and ASN.1 are too
> complex.
>
>
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