Antonio Ruiz Martínez wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm confused, when must I use the structure ASN1_TYPE and when must
> I use the structure ASN1_OBJECT?
>
They are completely different things.
ASN1_OBJECT is an ASN1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER. ASN1_TYPE is a general type
which can read in just about any ASN1 structure. Its roughly equivalent
to the ASN1 "ANY" type. It will read in one ASN1 structure: for example
any string type, a complete SET or SEQUENCE. The string types include
the relevant type in the structure whereas a SEQUENCE, SET or implicitly
tagged type's whole encoding is stored.
Steve.
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