Michael Bell wrote:
>Rich Salz schrieb:
>
>
>>>OtherName ::= SEQUENCE {
>>> type-id OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
>>> value [0] EXPLICIT ANY DEFINED BY type-id }
>>>
>>>
>>It means that the type-id OID defines the datatype of the value. Think
>>of it as a union.
>>
>>
>So the software must now the datatypes of all used OIDs if it wants to
>decode this sequence?
>
>
Yes.
It can only decode the sequence for OIDs it knows in advance, but this
leaves people free to use their own OID with totally arbitrary content.
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