28 Jan
2021
28 Jan
'21
1:34 a.m.
On 01/25/21 21:45, John Conan wrote (in part):
I've been messing around with X.680, aka ASN/1.
Its reputation for
horrible evilness, I find, primarily comes from the Packed Encoding
Rules and the interface with statically typed languages, both of which
require dealing with the schema language programmatically.
I would beg to differ. Have you ever seen the ASN.1 in the various
crypto standards? (This mess is independent of PER.)
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