Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>It is not fair to abuse new authors for following long-standing PKIX and
>S/MIME WG convention. These WGs have chosen to use the 1988 ASN.1 syntax
>because there are free tools that support it. If you have information
about
>freeware tools that support the later syntax, please let us know.
These WGs have chosen to use the obsolete 1988 ASN.1 syntax because they
couldn't be bothered learning anything newer. The (un)availability of
freeware tools is merely the most convenient red herring available to support
this position. I'n not aware of a single OSS/freeware project that is
hampered by the unavailability of freeware ASN.1 tools (the only project of
this kind that I know of that even uses one is SFL, and that doesn't seem to
have any problems).
Peter.