From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-07-08T05:06:20+09:00
Subject: Re: ASN.1 for Ruby

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Thanks for sending the library, Andrew,  but as it turns out I'm already
quite familiar with the inside of OpenSSL ;-). Part of the point of doing
the Net::LDAP library (and an eventual Net::ASN1 library should there be a
need for it) is to have everything be in pure Ruby.

On 7/7/06, Andrew Hodgkinson <ahodgkin@rowing.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
>
> > You may be thinking of the X.509 and PKCS standards, which are full of
> > ASN.1stuff (and of course they're implemented in the crypto libraries
> > that come with OpenSSL). For all those applications, I'd say the less
> > the users know about the data-representation, the better.
>
> Yes, I was thinking of this ASN.1 code. The crypto library is highly
> modular; it includes what looks like a generic ASN.1 support library.
> The X.509 etc. code calls into it, but although the asn1.h public header
> file does contain some items that are specfic to OpenSSL operations, it
> gives the impression that it could be used for a much wider range of
> applications. Of course, I could be wrong. I've uploaded the header from
> openssl-0.9.8b at the URL below in case you're interested, to save you
> having to get the whole tarball just for that one file:
>
>   http://pond.org.uk/misc/asn1.h
>
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