"James A. Donald" writes: -+----------------------- | <snip> | | ASN.1 provided additional redundant information, making | possible unexpected data layouts that should not | normally happen. It had too much expressive power, too | much flexibility. It could express cases that one does | not expect to deal with, could flex in more ways than | one's software is likely to be written for. | | <snip>
Sir, There is a lesson here as important as Fred Brook's "Adding people to a late project makes it later" and I urge you to put this in some form of "print" at your earliest capability. No, not urge but rather beg. --dan P.S., If needing further examples, take a shot at the fattest, sittingest duck -- the PERL credo: "There's more than one way to do it." --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
