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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for
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That's 100% true: BIP70 passes around serialized protobuf data that it signs directly for this reason; it could just as easily be a byte array with json in it. (not that json/XML/etc. doesn't have other flaws)
On 19 January 2015 13:03:32 GMT-07:00, Alan Reiner <etotheipi@gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm a bit confused. It's been a long time since I looked at protobuf
>(and will have to dig into it soon), but I seem to recall it doesn't
>have any of the determinism properties you guys just said. It is
>intended to allow you to skip details of the on-the-wire
>representations
>and just send a bunch of named fields between systems. I thought there
>was no guarantee that two identical protobuf structures will get
>serialized identically...?
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>On 01/19/2015 02:57 PM, Richard Brady wrote:
>> Thanks guys, great answers.
>>
>> The design choice certainly makes a lot more sense now regardless of
>> whether one agrees with it or not.
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>> Regards,
>> Richard
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