From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7a4ea6d223d42bf6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT: Looking for a protocol Date: 22 Jan 2006 11:35:36 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <4ICdnd7w5epKeU_eRVn-hA@comcast.com> <$fStXzgEBCCM@eisner.encompasserve.org> <43d371b1$0$4759$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <1170567.aEmZZjETXL@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1137951332 11809 192.135.80.34 (22 Jan 2006 17:35:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2575 Date: 2006-01-22T11:35:36-06:00 List-Id: In article , Larry Elmore writes: > Martin Krischik wrote: >> Adrien Plisson wrote: >> >> >>>Larry Kilgallen wrote: >> >> >>>>To me this seems like a problem susceptible to ASN.1, but that is my >>>>bias. >> >> >> >>>i would have say the same... >> >> >> Well, call me stupid - but what the heck is ASN.1? >> >> Martin > > http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/en/ > > It's very widely used in telecom. It is also used to define the X.500 standards, and thus the ubiquitous X.509 public key certificates. It is particularly designed for specifying information that is agnostic to the bit ordering habits of particular computer architectures. One can think of it as XML without the wasted space.