[cryptonector]

Protocol buffers is a tag-length-value encoding. It's got all the problems that DER and CER have. It's what happens when people decide to reinvent a wheel they don't understand.

[feffe]

What are the issues with TLV? I guess one could be that it's difficult to modify messages. On the other hand skipping parts of a message is efficient.

[cryptonector]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937046

[oblio]

You should write a blogpost at this point.

You can write more about these problems and it would have higher visibility.

[cryptonector]

Good point. I might, yes.