Re: [Cbor] Question about CBOR padding
Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 07 November 2018 04:43 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Question about CBOR padding
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Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com> wrote: > CBOR has no need for padding and it does not have any byte sequence that can > fill in for padding. True. You could pad with a sized or series of indefinite length array that ended with no items. I think it's best to just read the first "element", and ignore the rest though. -- Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
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