oid

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Mon Dec 9 13:41:00 EST 2002


>>>>> "Monika" == Monika Borikar <monikaborikar at hotmail.com> writes:

    Monika> What are ASN1, object identifiers (oid) & how are they
    Monika> interrelated?

ASN.1 is an encoding of structured data for wire protocols.  Or rather
it is a set of rules for describing the structure of that data.

OIDs (object identifiers) are used by ASN.1 to uniquely name certain
types of objects.




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