[tor-talk] Tor and P2P (Hidden SMS)

[meh.]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 03:17:39PM +0200, Bernd wrote:
> 2012/9/26  <tor at lists.grepular.com>:
> 
> >>> After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it
> >>> is, but how nice the idea is
> 
> What is bad about the torchat protocol? Is it its pragmatism and the
> fact that it does not use xml and other bloat?

It's not pragmatist at all, it wastes time and resources doing
replaces when it could have just been really binary and prepend the
length of the packet, which is the sane way to do something like that
instead of using an end of packet separator. It would allow the
preallocation of memory or rejection of something too long.

Also protocol buffers would have been a better choice for something
like that, it would have beeen even smaller than your protocol and
easier to implement, it would have made the protocol self-documenting
too.
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