[14735] in Kerberos
Re: ASN1 vs. CORBA IDL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Wed Jul 25 15:21:21 2001
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To: "Renzo Tomaselli" <renzo.tomaselli@tecnotp.it>
cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:34:39 +0200."
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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:17:59 -0400
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
>Being concerned with applying Kerberos and/or Sesame to a CORBA-based
>distributed architecture, I noticed a significant overlapping between ASN1
>datatypes and CORBA IDL values.
>I wonder if anybody can point me to any paper/mail-list/discussion about
>this subject, or just elaborate on this. I'm specifically interested to know
>whether CORBA IDL can somehow "eat up" ASN1 and up to which extent.
As I understand your question ... as a programmer, you're not really aware
of the use of ASN.1 in Kerberos. All you get are opaque bundles of bits.
Sure, they are DER-encoded ASN.1 structures, but you're not given an interface
to that. So I don't think that you have to worry about the CORBA IDL
eating up the ASN.1.
--Ken
