On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Paul Bakker <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Oct 15, 2013 Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
> > As for getting rid of Assanine 1, I would love to get rid of it
> completely. But as
> > a pragmatic matter, there is just too much ASN.1 already. I have even had
> to
> > reluctantly write a key signing format in Assanine.1 because having the
> cert
> > and key signing in different syntaxes is just too confusing.
>
> While I do understand the reluctance for ASN.1, in an embedded environment
> I
> really prefer it over text parsing and buffer duplication that is required
> for JSON parsing..
>

There are real problems there for embedded apps and for cryptography. But
extending the JSON approach modestly to incorporate fixed length strings
and binary blobs solves 95% of them:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hallambaker-jsonbcd/


Having to remember whether an object is implicit or explicit or vague is
just too much hassle.

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