Sockets

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:02:01 +0000
dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:

> Bad ASN.1 parsers have been responsible for zillions of security
> holes in the last few years.
This might be true. I wrote my own ASN.1 parser about 10 years ago.
Essentially, ASN.1 is a way to encode binary data in a standard way. If
you are going to do your own application, then using a home-grown
protocol is probably much better. ASN.1 is a much more general protocol.
It was used by SNMP, which is where I was introducted to it.
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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