31 Jan
2021
31 Jan
'21
3:42 a.m.
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
Oops, my fault; I read DER as BER.
-- Dave, needing new glasses
I was never
quite sure what to make of ASN.1 and BER; it seemed to
solve the problem of OpenLDAP applications talking to each other (and I
got quite good at reading wire traces), but it somehow seemed wrong
when every box was running FreeBSD on Intel/AMD.
BER does not work for digital signatures (because encodings are not
unique), hence DER.