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An [ISO]/[ITU-T]/[CCITT] standard for transmitting structured data on networks.
-Used by [SSL] Certificates, [SNMP], [LDAP], and
[IBM] Protocols.
+Used by [SSL] Certificates, and many protocols such as
[SNMP], [LDAP], various
[IBM] Protocols, Z39.50, etc
.
ASN.1 is a standard for transmitting structured binary data over networks. ASN.1 also is a grammer that can be used to define PDU's to be sent over a network. It's frequently seen as [SNMP] [MIB]s.
ASN.1 is made up of "encoding" of some chunk of data. An encoding is either: