Dale R. Worley <[email protected]> wrote: > "Doug Ewell" <[email protected]> writes: >>> Since very early in computing, operating systems have sought ways to >>> mark which files could be proposed by which programs. >> >> The word "proposed" feels very awkward here. Maybe "opened" or >> "manipulated," or some recasting of the sentence that talks about >> files "belonging to" programs, or something similar.
> When I first read that, I mis-read it as "processed by". I suspect
> that is what is intended.
> But ... Am I missing something? Isn't a magic number provided by RFC
> 8949 section 3.4.6?
> 3.4.6. Self-Described CBOR
> [...] Tag number 55799 is defined for this purpose, specifically
That tells us that it might be CBOR.
It does not distinguish a CBOR encoded certificate from a CBOR encoded
RFC8366 artifact, for instance.
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