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Re:Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary st... by alophawen on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:06PM (#30718014)
Not able to decode your references.

What does this refer to:

> 4. Files containing compressed or encrypted sections require a compression/encryption algorithm to be hardcoded into Kaitai struct libraries for each programming language it can output to.

Text mentions "Kaitai", but references

4. DFDL [7]

or

[4] https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/repository/templates/

is unrelated.

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Re:Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary st... by dhx on Thursday March 17, 2022 @11:49PM (#30718567)
Sorry for the confusing format. "[X]" is the notation used for references but "X." is just an item in an ordered list (nothing to do with references).

The comment about compressed and encrypted sections of files relates to the limited built-in algorithms that can be found at [1]. Any additional algorithms, for example, AES-XTS, would need to be added as custom processes and a corresponding function added for each language runtime Kaitai supports.

"DFDL [7]" refers to the reference "[7] https://github.com/DFDLSchemas/".

"4. ..." doesn't have any special meeting

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_co...

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