> I'm looking for a halfway self-contained set of ITU-T recommendations > which are relevant for implementing X.509v3 certificates. The > references in RFC 3280 appear to be incomplete; for instance, a > reference for ASN.1 itself is missing.
The ITU/ISO ASN1 standards are available for free download; see http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/standards/ > Or is it unreasonable to expect that the specs match what is actually > needed for interoperability with existing implementations (mostly in the > TLS, S/MIME area)? It's no worse than any other spec-vs-reality. You're more likely to find issues with the IETF specs layered on top of ASN1 than with ASN1 itself. /r$ -- STSM, DataPower Chief Programmer WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/datapower/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]