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Re: [Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Arcieri)
Tue Oct 1 11:49:50 2013
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From: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 08:36:24 -0700
To: Mark Atwood <me@mark.atwood.name>
Cc: Crypto <cryptography@metzdowd.com>, ianG <iang@iang.org>
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Mark Atwood <me@mark.atwood.name> wrote:
> YAML is a superset of JSON
C++ is a (not completely proper) superset of C. Does that make it better? ;)
> is more human readable, and, unlike JSON, has internal references.
YAML also has the property that indentation mistakes can radically alter
the interpretation of a file. And on Ruby, it was a remote code execution
vulnerability waiting to happen.
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Tony Arcieri
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<div dir=3D"ltr">On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Mark Atwood <span dir=3D"=
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<div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"=
gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-=
left:1ex">YAML is a superset of JSON</blockquote><div><br></div><div>C++ is=
a (not completely proper) superset of C. Does that make it better? ;)</div=
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<div>=A0</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;=
border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">is more human readable, and, u=
nlike JSON,=A0has internal references.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>YAML=
also has the property that indentation mistakes can radically alter the in=
terpretation of a file. And on Ruby, it was a remote code execution vulnera=
bility waiting to happen.=A0</div>
</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Tony Arcieri<br>
</div></div>
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