[woodruffw]

I don't have a strong opinion about whether it's an advantage or not, that was more just about the claim that it can't be parsed without a schema.

(I don't think variable-length-lengths are that big of a deal in practice. That hasn't been a significant hurdle whenever I've needed to parse DER streams.)

[cryptonector]

Variable length lengths are not a big deal, but they prevent online encoding. The way you deal with that anyways is that you make your system use small messages and then stream those.