From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 19:45:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F261A16A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 19:45:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from heave.ugcs.caltech.edu (heave.ugcs.caltech.edu [131.215.176.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE66A43D5A for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 19:45:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jd@ugcs.caltech.edu) Received: by heave.ugcs.caltech.edu (Postfix, from userid 3640) id 0E9108F489; Thu, 19 May 2005 12:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heave.ugcs.caltech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5CEEAA68; Thu, 19 May 2005 12:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:45:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Dama To: Poul-Henning Kamp In-Reply-To: <19736.1116495537@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: References: <19736.1116495537@critter.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE cc: Karel Miklav cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDcan slides uploaded X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 19:45:19 -0000 I think you can be a little more informative: ASN.1 is intended to be highly bandwidth efficient. As opposed to trying to send lots of data (over the network) with XML which is often like a baby trying to swallow a large watermelon whole. phk was discussing an infrequently used interface therefore asn.1 is not per se desirable. Though I have to take issue with Poul's opinion that writing many text parsers is just as secure as writing one ASN.1 decoder, but then again I wasn't at the talk so maybe Poul has one magic text parser to solve all of the problems. -my two cents. On Thu, 19 May 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <428C5BA9.2040103@inetis.com>, Karel Miklav writes: > >Can you please explain what you mean by: > > > >ASN.1 - =94This is not the format you are looking for.=94 > > It's a bastardized starwars quote. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetenc= e. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " >