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Question: ASN.1 for Kerberos Message Specification

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (WEIJUN%ITIVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.ed)
Tue Jan 21 22:42:27 1992

Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 11:09 PDT
From: WEIJUN%ITIVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
To: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
X-Vms-To: IN%"kerberos@athena.mit.edu"

Hello!
When reading Kerberos Specification (Draft4.1 for RFC), I have a problem
to understand Section 5.2(p20): the ASN.1 definination for HostAddress,
in the document, it is:
        HostAddress ::= SEQUENCE{
                        addr-type[0]
                        address[1]
                        }
Should it be
        HostAddress ::= SEQUENCE{
                        addr-type[0]    INTEGER
                        address[1]      OCTET STRING
                        }
 instead?
The definition for HostAddresses uses that.
I am new to ASN.1, may be I have missed something?


Regards,
Weijun Wang (weijun@itivax.bitnet)

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