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From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas DORIER <nicolas.dorier@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for encoding?
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:32:40 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1501281419110.21680@nzrgulfg.ivfhpber.pbz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALYO6Xt-jTYwpywUaH-s4YPYyGUp1_BLSEswscnwX+Vu166Lcw@mail.gmail.com>


On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Nicolas DORIER wrote:

> I agree that the use protocol buffer and x509 by BIP70 is a poor choice.

Well x509 is an international standard in common use, you can't do much 
better with regard to portability. Your suggestion about HTTPS makes 
little sense, you do know what TLS uses x509 internally as well?

Re: protocol buffers, I don't know if it's the best possible one, but one 
serialization method had to be picked. If it weren't, we could still have 
still been discussing which one to use by now. Just like for JSON there 
are bindings for many languages.

Though JSON parsers are much more diverse, which people using Bitcoin 
Core's RPC have bumped into e.g. some have some problems 
handling large numbers. Something you wouldn't expect using a 
straightforward binary format. There's no obvious best choice.

Wladimir



  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-28 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-28 12:45 [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for encoding? Nicolas DORIER
2015-01-28 13:32 ` Wladimir [this message]
2015-01-28 14:00   ` Nicolas DORIER
2015-01-28 15:42     ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-28 16:04       ` Jeff Garzik
2015-01-28 16:52         ` Nicolas DORIER
2015-01-28 17:29           ` Jeff Garzik
2015-01-28 17:45             ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-28 16:19       ` Giuseppe Mazzotta
2015-01-28 16:51         ` Matt Whitlock
2015-01-28 17:02           ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-28 16:34       ` Nicolas DORIER
2015-01-28 16:55         ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-28 17:04           ` Nicolas Dorier
2015-01-28 17:14             ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-28 17:17               ` Angel Leon
2015-01-28 17:27               ` Nicolas DORIER
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-19 19:07 Richard Brady
2015-01-19 19:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-01-19 19:16   ` Richard Brady
2015-01-19 19:34     ` Jeff Garzik
2015-01-19 19:48   ` Peter Todd
2015-01-19 19:57     ` Richard Brady
2015-01-19 20:03       ` Alan Reiner
2015-01-19 20:06         ` Peter Todd
2015-01-19 20:40         ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-19 20:56           ` Gavin Andresen
2015-01-19 21:22             ` Brian Hoffman
2015-01-19 20:59           ` Ross Nicoll
2015-01-24 13:19           ` Isidor Zeuner
2015-01-25 22:59             ` Ross Nicoll
2015-03-14 15:58             ` Isidor Zeuner
2015-03-24 12:08               ` Jorge Timón
2015-01-19 21:21         ` Jeff Garzik
2015-01-19 19:19 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-01-19 19:37   ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-19 19:38   ` Jeff Garzik

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