Re: [TLS] PR#28: Converting cTLS to QUIC-style varints

Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> Wed, 07 October 2020 17:15 UTC

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From: Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] PR#28: Converting cTLS to QUIC-style varints
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On 10/6/20 10:28, I wrote:
> ASN.1 is actually pretty cool ....

My favorite sentence in any RFC is:

    In ASN.1, EXPLICIT tagging is implicit
    unless IMPLICIT is explicitly specified.

(Not brown-nosing....)

Mike