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Re: [e-lang] Re: Protocol implementation errors

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Oct 7 09:36:15 2003

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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: ben@algroup.co.uk, e-lang@mail.eros-os.org
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com,
	Filed.Projects.EROS@scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk, frantz@pwpconsult.com,
	jerrold.leichter@smarts.com, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz

Ben Laurie <ben@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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