Simon, Are you on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list with a different email address than above? Your message bounced as a non-member submission. I am forwarding your message to the list this time, but please send mail from the email address with which you have subscribed to the list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul E. Thorpe Toll Free : 1-888-OSS-ASN1 OSS Nokalva International: 1-609-987-9073 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tech Support : 1-732-302-9669 http://www.oss.com Fax : 1-732-302-0023 On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Simon Spero wrote: > Because X.509 needs a canonical representation and predates PER by > approximately 14 years :). Also, nearly all the bytes in an X.509 > certificate are the key and the signature, which don't really compress well > with PER. LDAP on the otherhand really squishes well. > > Simon > > --On Friday, November 03, 2000 6:07 AM +0000 rb krishna > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can any one tell me whether X.509's ASN.1 specification can be > > encoded/decoded using PER. If yes , then why is it that most of them > > go for DER > > (subset of BER.) for encoding/decoding X.509 messages. > > although PER gives the most compact encoding. > > > > Thanx in advance, > > krishna. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _____________________________________________________ > > Chat with your friends as soon as they come online. Get Rediff Bol at > > http://bol.rediff.com > > > > Participate in crazy auctions at http://auctions.rediff.com/auctions/ > > > > > > > > > >
