On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Vadim Fedukovich wrote: > what are the rules or known-good examples of negative number encoding? > I'm trying to encode -2 as part of currency-amount-power sequence > and Peter Gutmann's dumpasn1 tool shows it as -254.
It surely looks like a simple error in the dump tool, to me. An eight-bit signed value of -2 would be 254 if interpreted as unsigned. I can recommend Olivier Dubuisson's book on ASN.1, but my copy is at home now so I can't refer to it. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make a good day. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
