https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/binary-encoding/ Recent content in Binary-Encoding on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-21-cbor-binary-serialization-libraries-libcbor-tinycbor-qcbor-libbinn/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-21-cbor-binary-serialization-libraries-libcbor-tinycbor-qcbor-libbinn/ <p><strong>CBOR</strong> (Concise Binary Object Representation, RFC 8949) is rapidly becoming the go-to binary serialization format for resource-constrained environments. Unlike JSON, which wastes bandwidth on repeated field names and whitespace, CBOR encodes data in a compact binary form while preserving JSON&rsquo;s flexible data model — objects, arrays, strings, numbers, booleans, and null. It is the backbone of the <strong>IETF&rsquo;s COSE</strong> (CBOR Object Signing and Encryption) standard and is used in <strong>FIDO2 WebAuthn</strong>, <strong>W3C Web of Things</strong>, and <strong>Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)</strong>.</p>