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Re: Checking abilities of ASN.1 compilers

1998-03-09 09:41:23
All,

We (VDA) use two ASN.1 toolkits: GNU SNACC freeware and DSET ASN.C v3.4.

As retrieved from the GNU server, the SNACC freeware does not support
"[UNIVERSAL 12]".  We made a minor enhancement to the SNACC freeware to
expand the UNIVERSAL values that it would accept.  After we made this minor
enhancement, then the "[UNIVERSAL 12]" trick worked.

DSET supports the "[UNIVERSAL 12]" trick as is.

Both toolkits support the "utf8String [0] IMPLICIT UTF8String" as is.

Based on our results and Jim Schaad's trouble implementing "[UNIVERSAL 12]"
(reported in an earlier message), we recommend ESSPrivacyMark should be:

ESSPrivacyMark ::= CHOICE {
    pString      PrintableString (SIZE (1..ub-privacy-mark-length)),
    utf8String   [0] IMPLICIT UTF8String (SIZE (1..ub-privacy-mark-length))
 }

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John Pawling   
jsp(_at_)jgvandyke(_dot_)com                             
J.G. Van Dyke & Associates, Inc.           
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