On 2025-10-08, at 17:37, Phillip Hallam-Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > > When CBOR was originally proposed, we were told it would do everything JSON > does.
And you got that. > What we got was something subtly different so COSE wasn't just JOSE in a > different serialization. COSE wasn’t JOSE because there was an opportunity to fix some JOSE idiosyncrasies. We could have decided against that and try to be bug-for-bug compatible, but there really was no point. > I can't see how PKIX in CBOR is going to turn out any different. Well, for one thing, C509 is usually way more compact than DER-encoded X.509. That may matter to you or it may not. Grüße, Carsten _______________________________________________ COSE mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
