>Is there any way to prepending an ASN1 sequence? Since I don't know how large
>something is until I form it, is there something I am missing that would allow
>for sequence(sequence(object,null),octetstring) by doing the object first,
>appending the null, prepending the sequence, appending the octet string,
>prepending the outer sequence?
Encoding backwards and then reversing the encoding is a standard trick for
doing ASN.1. The alternative is to do it in two passes, once to build up a
tree containing the nested element sizes, the second time to do the encoding.
Peter.
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