[NBLUG/talk] ASN.1 / BER

[Walter Hansen]

My old tagline was "Panties, not the best thing in the world; but real 
close." Was a little too much for relatives though.

I'm creating a program to interact with a server that sends packets in 
this protocol. The protocol seems to have very exacting definitions, but 
the (semi-government) server people don't provide a specification that 
really looks like the cryptic ones I see everywhere in ASN.1/BER.

They did provide with me with a hex dump of a captured session. I've 
been decoding the way the protocol actually turns into something but I 
haven't figured out all the bits. It's mostly integers (02) and octet 
strings (04).

I'm sure I could just communicate with the server raw (I do that now 
with a 3270 session with the same semi-govenment entity), but it'd be 
nicer if I could just use a definition that the perl ASN translator 
could translate for me.

On 5/1/2013 4:39 PM, Scott Doty wrote:
> On 05/01/2013 03:48 PM, gandalf at sonic.net wrote:
>> Anybody an expert on this?
>>
>
> I've used it before, mainly in reading RFC's and such.  IIRC, it's also
> used for snmp mibs with some packages.  (But it's been a _long_ time
> since I've looked at such things...)
>
> What's up?
>
>   -Scott
>
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