Re: Authority Key Identifier

[DUBUISSON Olivier <olivier.dubuisson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Hamrick, Matt" wrote:
> 
> Also... as a followup to Denis' response, you can find information about
> ASN.1 and BER encoding in the X.680 family of specifications. Burt Kalliski
> has also authored an article titled "a layman's guide to ASN.1" You can
> search google or cryptonomicon.net to find the URLs for these articles. As a
> fyi, most ITU specs cost money, but they allow people to download two or
> three 

3

> without charge each year. 

The X.680 and X.690 have been totally free for 2 years:

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/languages/

> If you're going to spend money trying to
> figure out ASN.1 and BER (and you really should figure these things out if
> you have to do serious certificate work,) there are a couple of books on
> ASN.1 I saw referenced on cryptonomicon.net. I think you could go there or
> amazon.com and search for "ASN.1". I think I saw the book by Olivier
> Dubuisson and thought it was a reasonable introduction to the subject.

It can be downloaded for free from OSS Nokalva's website:
http://www.oss.com/asn1/dubuisson.html
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