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   Re: [xml-dev] ASN.1 is an XML Schema Language (Fix those lists!)and Bina

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> A BER decoder is also a DER decoder - DER is just a profile of BER with 
> all the encoder's options removed!

Exactly, which is why I said DER is a canonicalization of BER, and 
what's necessary for hashing to work.  If there are fewer options than 
surely there must be less code in a DER reader.

	/r$

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Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect
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