(unknown charset) Re: BSDcan slides uploaded

From: (unknown charset) Jon Dama <jd_at_ugcs.caltech.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:45:15 -0700 (PDT)
I think you can be a little more informative:

ASN.1 is intended to be highly bandwidth efficient.  As opposed to trying
to send lots of data (over the network) with XML which is often like a
baby trying to swallow a large watermelon whole.

phk was discussing an infrequently used interface therefore asn.1 is not
per se desirable.

Though I have to take issue with Poul's opinion that writing many text
parsers is just as secure as writing one ASN.1 decoder, but then again I
wasn't at the talk so maybe Poul has one magic text parser to solve all of
the problems.

           -my two cents.


On Thu, 19 May 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <428C5BA9.2040103_at_inetis.com>, Karel Miklav writes:
> >Can you please explain what you mean by:
> >
> >ASN.1 - ”This is not the format you are looking for.”
>
> It's a bastardized starwars quote.
>
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