Hi - > From: "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "IETF Discussion" <ietf@xxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 2:43 PM > Subject: Best practice for data encoding? ... > Then there is the ASN.1 route, but as we can see with > SNMP, this also requires lots of code and is very (security) bug > prone. ... Having worked on SNMP toolkits for a long time, I'd have to strenuously disagree. In my experience, the ASN.1/BER-related code is a rather small portion of an SNMP protocol engine. The code related to the SNMP protocol's quirks, such as Get-Next/Bulk processing and the mangling of index values into object identifiers (which is far removed from how ASN.1 intended object identifiers to be used) require much more code and complexity. I'm curious, too, about the claim that this has resulted in security problems. Could someone elaborate? Randy _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf