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by nmadden 516 days ago
CBOR is basically a fork of MsgPack. I prefer the original - it’s simpler and there are more high-quality implementations available.
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jpc0 516 days ago
CBOR is actively used in the WebAuthN spec (passkeys) so browsers ship with en implementation... And if you intend to support it even via a library you will be shipping an implementation as well.

https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-2/#sctn-conforming-all-classe...

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camgunz 516 days ago
Disclaimer: I wrote and maintain a MessagePack implementation.

Reading through this, it looks like they toss out indefinite length values, "canonicalization", and tags, making it essentially MP (MP does have extension types, I should say).

https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-v2.0-ps-20190130/fido-cl...

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throw5959 516 days ago
Which Web API can encode and decode CBOR? I'm not aware of any, and unless I'm mistaken you will need to ship your own implementation in any case.
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