[Cryptography] Is ASN.1 still the thing?
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Wed Nov 22 01:21:39 EST 2017
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 04:20:45AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
>> I could not find a tool that would produce canonical byte aligned PER
>> decoding and encoding on both Windows and Linux that did not involve a
>> frightening and confusing license.
>>
>> Let alone manage the sockets and protocol negotiation when forming a
>> connection.
On 11/22/2017 7:05 AM, Nico Williams wrote:
> Sure. But again, would you rather respond to this by:
>
> a) building a new spec and tools for it,
>
> or
>
> b) building tools for the existing spec
As I said, there are more serializer and deserializer systems around
than I can shake stick at, and I have no intention of building yet another.
I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I want a standard for wheels to
protect me from having to think about what a wheel should look like, and
a library that provides me with ready made working wheels.
And the first I looked at or, rather looked for, was ASN/1 byte aligned
canonical per, it was the one I wanted to use, because it was the one
that had been used for similar purpose already, and I could not find
support for it.
ASN/1 has to compete with stuff like Apache Avro, and Apache Avro has,
or at least claims to have, open source libraries to do all the stuff I
want, plus stuff that future implementers might want to do with my stuff
if it is a big success.
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