[Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized

[Salz, Rich]

> The ASN.1 compiler is open source.  Google's compiler is not.

Hunh?  Code http://code.google.com/p/protobuf  Perhaps you are confused because the compiler is also available separately for those that don't want the whole distribution.  Like the way Linux packages are often available as foo and foo-dev.

> 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.

Got any documentation for this assertion?

	/r$

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