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Re: comments on client auth

To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com>, spki@c2.org
Subject: Re: comments on client auth
From: hallam@Etna.ai.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 96 16:55:32 -0400
Cc: hallam@Etna.ai.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jun 96 13:31:50 EDT." <199606131731.AA229517116@relay.hp.com>
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Bill writes

>This is not at all clear.  I enjoy programming in Lisp and Scheme,
>while I find dealing with ASN.1 to be like pulling teeth.  I find that
>S-expressions are *much* easier to work with than ASN.1..

I think that we should avoid getting into a flame war over ASN.1. Having
had to write an ASN.1 parser I'm not prepared to repeat the experience. Unless 
someone is willing to donate a parser generator which is entirely free of 
commercial use restrictions, increases total application size by less than 10 Kb 
and is proven correct I'm not going to use ASN.1, sorry.

I don't have hassle writing s-expression parsers. I have hassle reading the 
input - far too many parentheses used but then again its easier to write 
s-expressions than asn.1 using emacs :-)

	Phill

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