Re: [xml-dev] ASN.1 is an XML Schema Language (Fix those lists!) and Binary XML not needed...

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Rich Salz <>
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Alaric B Snell <>
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2003-11-05T19:59:06Z
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Re: [xml-dev] ASN.1 is an XML Schema Language (Fix those lists!) and Binary XML not needed...
> A BER decoder is also a DER decoder - DER is just a profile of BER with 
> all the encoder's options removed!

Exactly, which is why I said DER is a canonicalization of BER, and 
what's necessary for hashing to work.  If there are fewer options than 
surely there must be less code in a DER reader.

	/r$

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