Alessandro Triglia wrote:
> Decoding ASN.1 BER/DER is not particularly difficult. The procedure is
> specified in pages 10-37 of X.690 (*), which has been around for two
> decades. If there are buggy implementations out there, they are not due to
> the alleged complexity of ASN.1, but to careless programming and superficial
> testing.
Empirically, though, when I have been faced with actual BER data,
*ER-reading tools have been hard to find and of generally lousy quality.
This is not the case with XML tools. Assuming you are correct about
the difficulty, I assume this is a result of cultural and market rather
than technical issues. -Tim
