Jeffrey I. Schiller writes:
| The fundamental problem, however, with ASN.1 in the Internet (in my
| opinion) really boils down to the fact that it (and BER and DER) are not
| well documented in an Internet usable way (via a concise description in an
| RFC document distributed via electronic means). I suggest that we will
| continue to have problems until someone puts in the effort to re-document
| ASN.1 (say call it ISN.2 for Internet Syntax Notation [version 2]) along
| with a complete DER and BER in an easy to read and understand RFC.
It would perhaps also help hackers if protocols specified in ASN.1
were accompanied by examples with annotated packet dumps ?
Cheerio,
Martin
PS Philipp Hoschka has some useful ASN.1 related links at
<URL:http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/asn1.html>