[Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ised

[Dave Horsfall]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> For those not familiar with TL1, "supposed to be readable" here means 
> "encoded in ASCII rather than binary".  It's about as readable as 
> EDIFACT and HL7.

In a previous life I had to read, understand, and debug EDIFACT (it was 
OpenLDAP, as I recall).  It wasn't all that difficult; then again, at one 
time I had to know APL\360 (once described as a write-only language).

Want crypto?  Try obscurity :-)

-- Dave