> Has anyone thought of this - if I declare an OID to be "this data is
> a pointer into my database" how do relying parties figure this out?
> As in, is there some way to retrieve the ASN.1 rules/interpretation
> at run time? Securely?
I haven't heard of such a thing.
I wonder how useful it really is? The *semantics* are what count,
not the *syntax.* And tools like dumpasn show that you can dump
DER without having the ASN.1 around.
/r$
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