Цитата об ASN.1 из README pyasn1 библиотеки

    ASN.1 solves the data serialization problem. This solution was
    designed long ago by the wise Ancients. Back then, they did not have
    the luxury of wasting bits. That is why ASN.1 is designed to
    serialize data structures of unbounded complexity into something
    compact and efficient when it comes to processing the data.

Я теперь постоянно прям хочу цитировать этот "wise Ancients".