On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:27 PM, James A. Donald <[email protected]> wrote:
> Granted that ASN.1 is incomprehensible and horrid, but, since there is an > ASN.1 compiler that generates C code we should not need to comprehend it. > What about tools that want to comprehend it using something other than C code? The theoretical argument against something like this is the resulting C code is a "weird machine", i.e. ASN.1 cannot be understood by a pushdown automaton or described by a context-free grammar. See: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sergey/langsec/papers/langsec-tr.pdf -- Tony Arcieri
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