On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 18:56:01 -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
...
> Since very early in computing, operating systems have sought ways to mark
> which files could be proposed by which programs.
>
> For instance, the Unix file(1) command, which has existed since 1973
> ({{file}}), has been able to identify many file formats for decades.
>
...
> # Proposal One
>
> This proposal uses a CBOR Array of size two.
...
> # Proposal Two
>
> This proposal uses a CBOR Sequence {{!RFC8742}}.
Recently, I was thinking about the fun fact that the Unicode string "bor"
and the byte string "BOR" end up getting encoded as "cbor" and "CBOR",
respectively.
Maybe that could be somehow (ab)used? In general, I'm a big fan of
human-readable magic numbers.
Jeff.
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