CBOR does this pretty well:
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bormann-cbor-09>


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <[email protected]>wrote:

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>
>
> 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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