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> Hmmm... BER is the simplest to implement, though, and it's not THAT bad 
> on the compactness front.

Simplest for writers, maybe, but certainly hardest for readers.  The 
biggest problem is that there's no unique way of representing a given 
BER stream, so you can't hash it, so you can't digitally sign it.  DER 
is C14N for BER. :)
	/r$
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