Re: [saag] ASN.1 vs. DER Encoding

[Benjamin Kaduk <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 04:48:18PM -0500, Nico Williams wrote:
> I wrote earlier that:
> 
> > And then they (rightly!) hate BER/DER/CER, so they propose inventing
> > something new, often badly.  In this field, there is nothing new.  I'm
> > sure even flatbuffers isn't new.
> > 
> > I say "rightly" because TLV encodings are just terrible.  We really do
> > need non-TLV encodings (see below).
> 
> Now to back up that assertion:
> 
> 1) TLV encodings are bloated by nature due to being highly redundant.

Before I dig in too far to the rest, just to check: you're limiting to TLV
encodings that are nested and still do TLV at every level of the hierarchy?
I can't tell if you don't like things that are more like "a flat array of
things, each of which has tag, length, and (usually not nested) value.

-Ben