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Re: [Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Oct 1 10:36:12 2013
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 09:06:35 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>
To: jamesd@echeque.com
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On 1 October 2013 01:10, James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
> On 2013-10-01 04:22, Salz, Rich wrote:
>
>> designate some big player to do it, and follow suit?
>> Okay that data encoding scheme from Google protobufs or Facebook thrift.
>> Done.
>>
>
> We have a complie to generate C code from ASN.1 code
>
> Google has a compiler to generate C code from protobufs source
>
> The ASN.1 compiler is open source. Google's compiler is not.
>
Ahem: https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/downloads/list.
> Further, google is unhappy that too-clever-code gives too-clever
> programmers too much power, and has prohibited its employees from ever
> doing something like protobufs again.
Wat? Sez who?
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail=
_quote">On 1 October 2013 01:10, James A. Donald <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a h=
ref=3D"mailto:jamesd@echeque.com" target=3D"_blank">jamesd@echeque.com</a>&=
gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-=
left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;p=
adding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"im">On 2013-10-01 04:22, Salz, Rich wrote:<b=
r>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-=
left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;p=
adding-left:1ex">
designate some big player to do it, and follow suit?<br>
Okay that data encoding scheme from Google protobufs or Facebook thrift. =
=A0Done.<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div>
We have a complie to generate C code from ASN.1 code<br>
<br>
Google has a compiler to generate C code from protobufs source<br>
<br>
The ASN.1 compiler is open source. =A0Google's compiler is not.<br></bl=
ockquote><div><br></div><div>Ahem: <a href=3D"https://code.google.com/p/pro=
tobuf/downloads/list">https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/downloads/list</a>=
.</div>
<div>=A0</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px=
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left=
-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Further, google is unhappy that too-clever-c=
ode gives too-clever programmers too much power, and has prohibited its emp=
loyees from ever doing something like protobufs again.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Wat? Sez who?</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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