On 2017-04-19, at 20:51 , Guy Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 19, 2017, at 5:46 AM, Alexander Adolf > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have used ASN.1 in projects, and I would fully support Pascal's >> recommendation that it doesn't seem the best choice for Wireshark. > > It's the best choice for protocols specified in ASN.1 and using BER or PER. > > Unless we add ECN support, it's not the best choice for protocols not using > BER or PER. > [...]
Fully agree; that was exactly the background for my statement. If you have a well delineated use case where you can restrict it to one or two encodings, ASN.1 will do the job perfectly well. But for Wireshark, I think we cannot generally assume that no other encodings will occur. Cheers, --alex ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
