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‘a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler’, defined with an IDL-style language. see also Thrift and http://teddziuba.com/2008/07/build-google-protocol-buffers.html
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by the Dutch team behind the crack of the Dutch travel card, based on the same MIFARE system as London’s Oyster cards. paper coming in October