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Re: [saag] ASN.1 vs. DER Encoding

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Sun, 31 March 2019 15:38 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
CC: "Dr. Pala" <madwolf@openca.org>, "saag@ietf.org" <saag@ietf.org>
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>    which is basically saying it's not a formal syntax.

I tried to do that some time ago, and found a bunch of errors or ambiguities in the spec.  Yacc-based tool, and notes, here: https://github.com/richsalz/tlsparser

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