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Can anyone suggest a serialization format that can be implemented across languages without being a language lawyer?

JSON seems like it fits the bill but I have seen soooo many complaints about UNICODE encodings, whitespace or some other things, and people saying secure scuttlebutt suxx because it relies on perfectly copying Node’s JSON implementation. But dudes, what format is better out there?

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The SSB issue with json is that it plays with the json after signing it. Just don't do that.

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What specifically do you mean? I have so far resorted to using http_build_query type algorithms to make it for sure canonical.

It's not a fun format to work in but ASN.1 is aimed at that and there's also protocol buffers, Avro, and messagePack, among others.

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