Security

Protecting your data

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.

Efficiency

But ease-of-use is also important!

We send so much data now 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 formats.

▸ Edit Text - Transmit Binary ◂

Types

We shouldn't have to stringify anymore

Lack of types forces everyone to add extra encoding steps to send their data, which is buggy, reduces compatibility, and opens new security holes.

Concise Encoding supports all of the common types natively.

Numeric

                
c1
{
    "boolean"       = true
    "binary int"    = -0b10001011
    "octal int"     = 0o644
    "decimal int"   = -10000000
    "hex int"       = 0xfffe0001
    "very long int" = 100000000000000000000000000000000000009
    "decimal float" = -14.125
    "hex float"     = 0x5.1ec4p+20
    "very long flt" = 4,957234990634579394723460546348e+100000
    "not-a-number"  = nan
    "infinity"      = inf
    "neg infinity"  = -inf
}
                
            

String-Like

                
c1
{
    "string" = "Strings support escape sequences: \n \t \51F415"
    "url"    = @"https://example.com/"
    "email"  = @"mailto:me@somewhere.com"
}
                
            

Other Basic Types

                
c1
{
    "uuid"      = f1ce4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000
    "date"      = 2019-07-01
    "time"      = 18:04:00,948/Europe/Prague
    "timestamp" = 2010-07-15/13:28:15.415942344
    "null"      = null
    "media"     = |m application/x-sh 23 21 2f 62 69 6e 2f 73 68 0a 0a
                    65 63 68 6f 20 68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 0a|
}
                
            

Containers

                
c1
{
    "list"          = [1 2.5 "a string"]
    "map"           = {"one"=1 2="two" "today"=2020-09-10}
    "bytes"         = |u8x 01 ff de ad be ef|
    "int16 array"   = |i16 7374 17466 -9957|
    "uint16 hex"    = |u16x 91fe 443a 9c15|
    "float32 array" = |f32 1.5e10 -8,31e-12|
}
                
            

Markup

                
c1
<View;
    <Image "src"=@"images/avatar-image.jpg">
    <Text "id"="HelloText";
        Hello! Please choose a name!
    >
    <TextInput "id"="NameInput" "style"={"height"=40 "borderColor"="gray"};
        Name me!
    >
>
                
            

References

                
c1
{
    // Entire map will be referenced later as $id1
    "marked object" = &id1:{
        "recursive" = $id1
    }
    "ref1" = $id1
    "ref2" = $id1

    // Reference pointing to part of another document.
    "outside ref" = $"https://xyz.com/document.cte#some_id"
}
                
            

Graphs

                
c1
//
// The weighted graph:
//
//     b
//    /|\
//   4 1 1
//  /  |  \
// a-3-c-4-d
//
{
    "vertices" = [
        &a:{}
        &b:{}
        &c:{}
        &d:{}
    ]
    "edges" = [
        @($a {"weight"=4 "direction"="both"} $b)
        @($a {"weight"=3 "direction"="both"} $c)
        @($b {"weight"=1 "direction"="both"} $c)
        @($b {"weight"=1 "direction"="both"} $d)
        @($c {"weight"=4 "direction"="both"} $d)
    ]
}
                
            

Trees

                
c1
//
// The tree:
//
//       2
//      / \
//     5   7
//    /   /|\
//   9   6 1 2
//  /   / \
// 4   8   5
//
(2
    (7
        2
        1
        (6
            5
            8
        )
    )
    (5
        (9
            4
        )
    )
)
                
            

Custom Types

                
c1
{
    // Custom types are user-defined, with user-supplied codecs.
    "custom text"   = |c "cplx(2.94+3i)"|
    "custom binary" = |c 01 f6 28 3c 40 00 00 40 40|
}