[Cryptography] BitCoin bug reported

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Mon Feb 17 06:40:09 EST 2014


At 03:03 PM 2/16/2014, James A. Donald wrote:
>> Surely unaligned ASN.1 CANONICAL-PER is fine, for the things that will
>> be parsed
>> are defined at compile time, limiting run time complexity.
>> One cannot send a structure that the recipient has not been compiled
>> to understand.

On 2014-02-17 13:31, Bill Stewart wrote:
> Of course you can send the recipient a structure it hasn't been compiled
> to understand.

One is not able to express arbitrary structures in unaligned  ASN.1 
CANONICAL PER.




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