Subject: RE: SNACC ASN.1 DER Freeware (was RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix- scvp -00.txt)

From: "Pawling, John" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 12:39:47 -0400

Aram,

I agree that SNACC does not support all of the latest ASN.1 features, but
there are work-arounds that allow SNACC to be used to produce ASN.1 hex
encodings that are identical to those produced by ASN.1 libraries that do
support the latest ASN.1 features.  Also note that many of the PKIX specs,
such as RFC 2459, include 1988-compliant ASN.1 syntax modules which can be
directly compiled using SNACC.  As part of the S/MIME Freeware Library, VDA
used SNACC to implement the S/MIME v3 set of specs.  There is also a
freeware Certificate Management Library
(http://www.armadillo.huntsville.al.us/software/certmgmt/index.html) that
uses SNACC to implement the 1997 X.509 Recommendation.

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John Pawling, Director - Systems Engineering
J.G. Van Dyke & Associates, Inc.
[email-masked]
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