ASN1 framework

[Jim Shi]

http://luca.ntop.org/Teaching/Appunti/asn1.html

On Aug 27, 2012, at 4:49 AM, Alejandro Perez Mendez wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> for my GSS preauthentication plugin I should make use of ASN1 for the 
> encoding of the PA element. I've being advised to not encode DER by 
> hand, but use instead the ASN1 macros that are defined in MIT KRB code. 
> However, I've spent a while trying to understand how they work, without 
> much success. Is there any documentation available?
> 
> I have lots of questions about it, like:
> 
> Am I supposed to modify the code in lib/krb5/asn1/ to define the 
> encoding of my PA element? (there are lots of PKINIT definitions there)
> 
> Are encoding/decoding functions generated automatically based on the DEF 
> macros? (some structs have encoding and decoding functions, some only 
> have decoding functions, and some seem to have none of them).
> 
> Regards,
> Alejandro
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