Actually, it turns out that they indeed are freely available:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/database/itu-t/x/index.html
Many Thanks to Hoyt Kesterson for informing me about this. Hoyt
mentioned to me that the database perhaps is not complete yet; a quick
look however indicates that all needed v3 modules are in place.
So, perhaps S/MIME could reference these modules after all...
BR,
-- Magnus
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Magnus Nystrom wrote:
...though of course X.509 ASN.1 modules are not freely available
(AFAIK),
Sorry for any confusion,
-- Magnus
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Magnus Nystrom wrote:
John Pawling wrote:
[...]
I agree with Jim Schaad that the S/MIME specs should reference
the ASN.1 modules in the PKIX documents instead of the ITU-T
documents. The PKIX documents are freely available to all, but the
ITU-T documents are not.
This is not true; all ITU-T ASN.1 documents are available at:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com10/languages/index.html
Further, the ASN.1 in PKIX docs is not correct (use of UNIVERSAL
tags), which complicates matters for those using standards-compliant
compilers.