I'm sure I'm the only one who does not know ASN inside and out, but a little
checking reveals that ASN stands for Abstract Syntaxt Notation. It is an ISO
standard, although the following layman's guide claims it is an OSI std: (?)
ftp://rsa.com/pub/pkcs/ascii/layman.asc (this covers BER & DER)
New to me: Basic Encoding Rules and Distinguished Encoding Rules.
Hmm... perhaps ASN.1 was an OSI std before it was an ISO std. Any way,
you can buy it as molecules from ISO. If you go to
http://www.iso.ch/cate/cat.html
and ask about ASN it tells you: (P.S. ISO does not sell things as bits,
YET!)
ISO/IEC 8824:1990 Information technology -- Open Systems Interconnection --
Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
ISO/IEC 8825:1990 Information technology -- Open Systems Interconnection --
Specification of Basic Encoding Rules for Abstract Syntax Notation One
(ASN.1)
How to be concisely abstract, or vice versa. I know a lot of smart people
like it.
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