Re: asn1Decoding(1) fails to decode a CHOICE?

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On 10/07/2012 12:50 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote:


>       The practice of explicit tag assignment is, AIUI, discouraged by
>       X.680, but my guess is that AUTOMATIC TAGS will lead to
>       essentially the same behavior.
>       One of the ASN.1 definitions I'm interested in is included
>       below.  (I haven't tried it against Libtasn1 yet, but it's
>       similar enough to the example being discussed.)
[...]

>       This definition is part of the FCCS schema (which is an

>       alternative to mtree(1) I happen to develop), and isn't used
>       that widely (I may be the only user for now), so it may be
>       possible to change it for better compatibility with ASN.1
>       implementations.  Unfortunately, I have no idea on how exactly
>       to change it for such.


The libtasn1 library is well tested by me on the PKIX (X.509)
structures. I don't know how it would cope with your example, but I see
no issue there.

regards,
Nikos