[Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized

[Mark Atwood]

> Here's a crazy idea: instead of using one of these formats, use a
> human readable format that can be described by a formal grammar
> which is hopefully regular, context-free, or context-sensitive in a
> limited manner

YAML?



On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Tony Arcieri <bascule at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Mark Atwood <me at mark.atwood.name> wrote:
>>
>> Well, there are Protobufs, and there is Thrift, and there is
>> MessagePack, and there is Avro...
>
>
> Here's a crazy idea: instead of using one of these formats, use a human
> readable format that can be described by a formal grammar which is hopefully
> regular, context-free, or context-sensitive in a limited manner
>
> --
> Tony Arcieri