[Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Tue Oct 1 11:36:24 EDT 2013


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Mark Atwood <me at 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.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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