[Cryptography] [FORGED] Re: Is ASN.1 still the thing?

[James A. Donald]

Quoting Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz>:
> If you really want something simple, lightweight, and straightforward, what
> about XDR?  That's pretty well defined, and dates from a time when primary
> design goals were that stuff be efficient and easily implementable, rather
> than as complex as you can make it, or as hip as possible, or with angle
> brackets (some stuff encompasses all three of those).

XDR is the native tongue of RPC.

RFC 1831.  And you can just grab an open source RPC library to take care 
of all that boring sockets stuff, and be standard so that other people 
can talk to you.

Though this does not address the protocol negotiation problem, which is 
assumed to be out of scope.

Is there anything similarly standard and ready to go for ASN.1 PER, or 
do you have to figure out how to put it on the line yourself and get it 
off the line yourself?

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