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Re: [TLS] TLS grammar checker?

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 18 June 2013 16:55 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:55:31 -0400
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> (Having said that, I'd like to see it done.  The grammar used in the 
> SSL/TLS RFCs is pretty confusing in places).

Any support for using a standard like, say, ASN.1 ?


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