Peter Gutmann wrote: > Jerrold Leichter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I agree that ASN.1 is statically checkable, and that this is an important >>property. However, ASN.1 is notoriously hard to parse, which leads to errors. > > > 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? Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
