Hi,
What is the maximum value of an OBJECT IDENTIFIER's 2nd component,
when 1st component is 2?
I haven't got X.660, all I know is that BER encodes it with one
octet = * 1st component 40 + 2nd component.
So I can think of four possibilities:
- 39, as when 1st component 2,
- 47, if the BER
The answer is unlimited, AND that BER ***CAN encode all values.
The OID encoding uses bit 8 as a more bit (for all components), with the value
in the concatenation of the bottom seven bits of as many (the minimum number) of
bits that it takes.
So OID {2 }
encodes as a single component
John Larmouth writes:
The answer is unlimited, AND that BER ***CAN encode all values.
Thanks, but, um...
I guess the question is Why do you think BER encodes it as a single
octet?
RSA's A Layman's Guide to a Subset of ASN.1, BER, and DER,
