Christian Huitema <huit...@huitema.net> writes: >Receiver side: receive the message, parser with generic ASN.1 decoder, >process the message using the "parsed" representation, re-encode with DER, >check the signature.
Except that no true Scots... uhh, sane person ever even tried that. I've heard that there was one implementation, done in Europe, but have never seen it. Everyone else just treated what arrived as a blob and went with that. That's why, years ago, on the PKIX list I said "there is only one encoding rule and that is memcpy()". >Well, we have learned a few things since 1994. Except for the people who did secure XML, who not only ignored what we've learned so far but made it worse by making it active content rather than flat byte strings. But that seems to be the rule for XML design in any case. Peter. _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
