From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] asn.1 alternatives Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:13:58 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <397b504b58a5f6c5ff602c2f19c4463a@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: fc1504f2-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > and by the insistence of the comiler to code anything that > has a known maximum length by a static array of that length. I've never seen any of these mythical monsters, what do they really look like? Looking at the innumerable implementations of ASN.1 libraries, one is tempted to believe that enough effort has been deployed in that direction. Does any of the Open Source stuff (Heimdal, OpenLDAP, OpenSSL, rdesktop, to name but a few) actually ever re-use someone else's ASN.1 libraries? ++L