From: John Lowry <jlowry@bbn.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 01:29:14 +0800
To: tim@dierks.org
Subject: Re: ASN.1 Tools/Compilers
Message-ID: <199603221451.JAA12020@dave.bbn.com>
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Not to toot my own horn, but take a look at
http://ests.bbn.com for a free ASN.1 to C++ compiler that runs on
solaris 1 and 2 and has been ported (with relatively little effort)
to Windows.  Free for non-commercial use.  Commercial use terms
have unrestricted rights for runtime.

> From <@relay3.uu.net:owner-cypherpunks@toad.com> Fri Mar 22 06:36 EST 1996
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 01:12:27 -0800
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> From: tim@dierks.org (Tim Dierks)
> Subject: Re: ASN.1 Tools/Compilers
> Cc: frederick_zarndt@novell.com (Frederick Zarndt)
> 
> At 10:29 AM 3/21/96, Frederick Zarndt wrote:
> >Does anyone know of reliable ASN.1 tools/compilers suitable for use on a
> >wide range
> >platforms?
> >
> >I already know about the following tools/compilers, but I would appreciate
> >comments
> >anyone cares to make:
> >
> >    ISODE (who to contact for the DE?)
> >    Snacc
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Frederick Zarndt
> >Senior Software Engineer
> >Novell, Inc
> >122 East 1700 South
> >Provo UT 84606
> >USA
> >
> >Tel  801 429-3348
> >Fax. 801 429-3500
> 
> I've recently been looking into this as well. I haven't looked at ISODE
> yet. Snacc looks reasonable, but can't handle big integers (> 2^32), which
> may make it hard to use for certificates, due to embedded RSA keys; I
> haven't yet checked to see what could be done about this. It's free; the
> compiler is under the GNU license, but the runtime is redistributable
> without fee or onerous restriction.
> 
> I also spoke to a company in NJ, Open Systems Solutions (609.987.9073), but
> their licensing terms were too expensive for my purposes. Their product
> runs on a lot of platforms and sounds very complete, but requires a
> licensed run-time environment. They currently support C and Pascal; C++ is
> coming. Their development environment starts at $11,500.
> 
> I'm also searching for an ASN.1 product. We can afford to pay for a
> compiler, but we need unrestrained distribution of the runtime in source
> form. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> You may wish to examine the ASN.1 homepage @:
>          http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/asn1.html
> 
> Best,
>  - Tim
> 
> Tim Dierks - Software Haruspex - tim@dierks.org
> Hastening the heat-death of the universe since 1968.
> 
> 
>