Re: [apps-discuss] CBOR: convert CBOR bignum to base64url JSON string

"Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> Fri, 24 May 2013 06:55 UTC

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From: "Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:55:35 +1000
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> So how would you plan to use bignums in JSON-interfacing CBOR
> applications?  For crypto material like ECDSA values?

Yes, public key crypto quantities.