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morshu9001yesterday at 9:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

In what ASN1 application is protobuf spec too limited? I've used protobuf for tons of different things, it's always felt right. Though I understand certain encodings of ASN1 can have better performance for specific things.


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cryptonectortoday at 5:35 AM

Open types, constrained types, parameterized types, not needing tags, etc.

zzo38computeryesterday at 10:03 PM

Numbers bigger than 64-bits, character sets other than Unicode (and ASCII), OIDs, etc.

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