Re: [TLS] TLS grammar checker?
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> Fri, 21 June 2013 13:17 UTC
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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS grammar checker?
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote: >> ASN.1 ... is ... widely ... known ... and ... understood ? > Compared to the alternatives, yes. Look at what data definition languages are used in RFC's. Actually ASN.1 is the minority in definition languages in RFCs and I believe much more people understand HTTP or SMTP than ASN.1. There was a reason ASN.1 was avoided in the TLS protocol, and that is simplicity(*). I don't think much has changed since then. regards, Nikos (*). See for example the note on the usage of PKCS #6 in RFC2246.
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