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Original date posted:2015-01-19
š Original message:On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at 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.
--
--
Gavin Andresen
Chief Scientist, Bitcoin Foundation
https://www.bitcoinfoundation.org/
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Original date posted:2015-01-19\nš Original message:On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Mike Hearn \u003cmike at plan99.net\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e OK, I guess we can boil this down more simply. BIP 70 uses protocol\n\u003e\u003e buffers because I designed it and implemented the original prototype (with\n\u003e\u003e lots of input from Gavin and an earlier proposal by sipa). I used protocol\n\u003e\u003e buffers because, beyond all their nice properties, I used to work at Google\n\u003e\u003e and so was very familiar with them.\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\nWhat Mike said. Runner-up for encoding was JSON.\n\nXML+ASN.1 was Right Out, because lots of us hate XML and ASN.1 with a\nburning passion. Complexity is the Enemy of Security, and both XML and\nASN.1 are too complex.\n\n\n-- \n--\nGavin Andresen\nChief Scientist, Bitcoin Foundation\nhttps://www.bitcoinfoundation.org/\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150119/e1a3fb5a/attachment.html\u003e",
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