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Comment by OhMeadhbh

Ack. I wrote an ASN.1 compiler in Java in the 90s. Mostly just to make sure I understood how it and BER/DER were used in X.509. I think the BER interpretation bits are still being used somewhere

I'm sorry you had to waste a year of your life.

There are few things I dislike more in the computing world than ASN.1/BER. It seems to encourage over-specification and is suboptimal for loosely coupled systems.

But it looks like you had a decent time...

parent OhMeadhbh 1 year ago

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