Damn if SPKI had won out we would be parsing S-expressions instead of X.509 certificates. ASN.1 is not fun IMHO.


On Jan 19, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavin@bitcoinfoundation.org> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
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.

What Mike said. Runner-up for encoding was JSON.

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.


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