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   Re: [xml-dev] Fwd: [e-lang] Protocol implementation errors

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Tyler Close wrote,
> I am only saying that it must be feasible to maintain an ASN.1
> implementation as part of a legacy codebase.

This is only interesting if expressed in relative terms: it must be at 
least as feasible to maintain an ASN.1 implementation as it would be to 
maintain comparable alternatives. I can't think of any particularly 
good reasons for thinking that's not the case.

> Obviously, OpenSSL and SNMP have had difficulties with that. Are there
> counter-examples of applications that have not had long-lived bugs
> in their ASN.1 code?

Would you like some examples of undetected crimes as well? ;-)

Cheers,


Miles




 

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