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. -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/
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