{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1nqeart5fmxjzj4tejkp7fckp0qa4hw3gpha6espxudum2qlvvrhqvlnwve","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1nqeart5fmxjzj4tejkp7fckp0qa4hw3gpha6espxudum2qlvvrhqvlnwve","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-01-19\n📝 Original message:Damn if SPKI had won out we would be parsing S-expressions instead of X.509 certificates. ASN.1 is not fun IMHO.\n\n\n\u003e On Jan 19, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Gavin Andresen \u003cgavin at bitcoinfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e \n\u003e On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Mike Hearn \u003cmike at plan99.net\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\u003e\u003e OK, I guess we can boil this down more simply. BIP 70 uses protocol buffers because I designed it and implemented the original prototype (with lots of input from Gavin and an earlier proposal by sipa). I used protocol buffers because, beyond all their nice properties, I used to work at Google and so was very familiar with them.\n\u003e \n\u003e \n\u003e What Mike said. Runner-up for encoding was JSON.\n\u003e \n\u003e XML+ASN.1 was Right Out, because lots of us hate XML and ASN.1 with a burning passion. Complexity is the Enemy of Security, and both XML and ASN.1 are too complex.\n\u003e \n\u003e \n\u003e -- \n\u003e --\n\u003e Gavin Andresen\n\u003e Chief Scientist, Bitcoin Foundation\n\u003e https://www.bitcoinfoundation.org/\n\u003e \n\u003e ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\u003e New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA.\n\u003e GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn.\n\u003e Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth.\n\u003e Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant.\n\u003e http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e Bitcoin-development mailing list\n\u003e Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net\n\u003e https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150119/ea970d31/attachment.html\u003e"}