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Life & fun · October 4, 2020

Concise Encoding – a friendly data format for human and machine

The secure data format for a modern world

Concise Encoding – a friendly data format for human and machine launched on October 4, 2020 with 78 votes, #616 of 4,018 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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Concise Encoding is a data format designed for both human readability and machine processing. It provides an alternative to existing formats for storing and exchanging structured information. The format aims to be straightforward enough for people to write and read while remaining efficient for computers to parse and generate. Launched in 2020, it targets developers and organizations looking for a more accessible data serialization option.

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Times are different from the carefree days that brought us XML and JSON. State actors, criminal organizations and mercenaries are now actively hacking governments, companies and individuals to steal secrets, plant malware, and hold your data hostage. The existing ad-hoc data formats are too loosely defined to be secure , and can't be fixed because they're not versioned. Concise Encoding is designed for security, and is versioned so that it can be updated to handle new threats. We send so much data these days that efficiency is critical, but switching to binary means giving up the ease of text formats. Concise Encoding gives you ease and efficiency with its 1:1 compatible text and binary…from concise-encoding.org

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