[e-lang] Re: Protocol implementation errors

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Tue Oct 7 05:56:18 EDT 2003


Ben Laurie <ben at algroup.co.uk> writes:
>Peter Gutmann wrote:
>>ASN.1 has a *reputation* of being notoriously hard to parse, gained chiefly
>>from some early bad experiences with OSI work (which would give anything a
>>reputation of being hard to work with :-).  I've implemented, and I know of
>>others who have implemented, extremely compact and portable ASN.1 libraries.
>
>Do you really mean ASN.1 or do you mean DER/BER?

Sorry, I meant BER/DER data, not the ASN.1 source text.

Peter.

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