Hello, While I understand that both Olivier Dubuisson and Prof.John Larmouth have written two excellent books on ASN.1, I'd like recommendation on which one of the two to read, given the fact that :- 1) I'm almost a beginner on ASN.1 (somewhat familiar with basic '88 specs & elementary BER only). 2) Need to understand the GSM MAP 23.02 specs that seem to heavily use the newer ASN.1 features. 3) Need to ramp-up and be productive in the shortest time :-)) What I may not need immediately are:- 1) Extreme / gory details of ASN.1 that are not part of the GSM MAP specifications 2) Academic details (meaning of this is vague, i know, but it's about "gutfeel"). 3) non-BER encoding formats I remember a good comparison of the 2 books somewhere, but now I can't find it, and getting 2nd opinion doesn't harm. With all due-respects to both the authors for their excellent books (no flattery intended, as at different points in time, in last 3 years I've read parts of both books, but never cover-to-cover).
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