[Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized

[Ben Laurie]

On 1 October 2013 01:10, James A. Donald <jamesd at 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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