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Re: [TLS] TLS grammar checker?

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Sat, 22 June 2013 14:03 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
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> The beauty of the TLS syntax is, that it can be briefly explained inside the spec and all an implementor ever needs is the protocol spec itself.

Really?  Can I have a vector of digitally-signed?

> Going back to my original question, whether implementations should accept a GeneralizedTime

That's an IETF question, not an ASN.1 question.  ASN1 says quite clearly that those years are four-digit.  Did they get everything right on the first publication?  Certainly not.  Heck, even the IETF has errata :)

	/r$

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