Hello, On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:02:59 +0200, Mike Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ ... ] > I have taken the x509 ASN.1 certificate profile definition from the > x509decode script and > written my own library, which I was planning to release to CPAN, but it's not > finished yet. > It is mostly working, except for decoding cert extensions and constructing > DNs on-the-fly. > [...] This sounds very good. I've been thinking on encapsulating the X509decode example to a module like Convert::ASN1::X509, but yours sounds further advanced.
> It's quite slow, though. On my 500Mhz P3 test machine, it takes ~0,7s to > decode a cert > with the pure perl method. On modern machines, it might be so fast that you > can't even > notice it (I hope so). Speed is not really an issue. Even with half a second per certificate and some 10000 certificates to work on the script would be through in less than two hours. On my 500MHz Notebook, the X509 decoding with Convert::ASN1 is faster than that, the production machine is more like 3Ghz. What I like more about an perl-only solution is the ease of installing without binary compiling. > Are you interested in something like that? Yes. Alexander Jung
