[protobuf] Re: Issue 480 in protobuf: Make binary package available for OSX

2014-06-27 Thread protobuf
Comment #2 on issue 480 by jcredl...@googlemail.com: Make binary package available for OSX http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=480 When you do it'd be useful if it: supported as many architectures as possible; was compatible with OSX back to 10.6; supported IOS as well as O

Re: [protobuf] Using a more secure encoding other than base64 for encoding.

2014-06-27 Thread Marc Gravell
Protobuf doesn't actually use base-64 *at all*. And base-64 (and other encodings) **are not security features**; they are not intended to be secure or insecure - that simply is an unrelated concern. I suspect any use of base-64 here is simply because protobuf is binary and cookies are text, and bas