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

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Sun, 31 March 2019 11:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] ASN.1 vs. DER Encoding
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On 31/03/2019 08:39, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> There is no free lunch in this space.

Oddly, there sort-of is... if one ignores the ~every-5-years
debate that the new-way (asn.1/der,asn.1/<foo>,xml+dtd,xml+
schema,json,cbor...) is obviously the right answer to everything,
and just go eat your lunch... then that's nearly a free lunch:-)

I never understood how so many people get so excited by this
topic myself. Seems to me programmers will always find a way
to do as well or badly as ever despite the differences in this
kind of tooling. (Training, experience and other kinds of
tools like more strict compiler options can make a difference.)

S.

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