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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.
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Gavin Andresen
Chief Scientist, Bitcoin Foundation
https://www.bitcoinfoundation.org/
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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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