[52477] in Cypherpunks
Re: ASN.1 Tools/Compilers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Dierks)
Fri Mar 22 04:47:05 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 01:12:27 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tim@dierks.org (Tim Dierks)
Cc: frederick_zarndt@novell.com (Frederick Zarndt)
At 10:29 AM 3/21/96, Frederick Zarndt wrote:
>Does anyone know of reliable ASN.1 tools/compilers suitable for use on a
>wide range
>platforms?
>
>I already know about the following tools/compilers, but I would appreciate
>comments
>anyone cares to make:
>
> ISODE (who to contact for the DE?)
> Snacc
>
>Thanks.
>
>Frederick Zarndt
>Senior Software Engineer
>Novell, Inc
>122 East 1700 South
>Provo UT 84606
>USA
>
>Tel 801 429-3348
>Fax. 801 429-3500
I've recently been looking into this as well. I haven't looked at ISODE
yet. Snacc looks reasonable, but can't handle big integers (> 2^32), which
may make it hard to use for certificates, due to embedded RSA keys; I
haven't yet checked to see what could be done about this. It's free; the
compiler is under the GNU license, but the runtime is redistributable
without fee or onerous restriction.
I also spoke to a company in NJ, Open Systems Solutions (609.987.9073), but
their licensing terms were too expensive for my purposes. Their product
runs on a lot of platforms and sounds very complete, but requires a
licensed run-time environment. They currently support C and Pascal; C++ is
coming. Their development environment starts at $11,500.
I'm also searching for an ASN.1 product. We can afford to pay for a
compiler, but we need unrestrained distribution of the runtime in source
form. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
You may wish to examine the ASN.1 homepage @:
http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/asn1.html
Best,
- Tim
Tim Dierks - Software Haruspex - tim@dierks.org
Hastening the heat-death of the universe since 1968.
