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

Carl Wallace <carl@redhoundsoftware.com> Tue, 26 March 2019 20:09 UTC

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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 16:08:58 -0400
From: Carl Wallace <carl@redhoundsoftware.com>
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Thread-Topic: [saag] ASN.1 vs. DER Encoding
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>> This is why we hate DER, and we like CDDL/CBOR.
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>Whatever the abstract syntax, the real solution is probably more
>widely available/used compilers.  Hand-rolled codecs will have more
>(frequent and subtle) bugs.

Fully agree with this. The first time I had to consume CBOR/COSE the
encoded structures were every bit as buggy as folks complain about DER/CMS
structures. 
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