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Re: Specifying dissectors declaratively
From: Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf () condition-alpha com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 22:07:20 +0200
On 2017-04-19, at 20:51 , Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
On Apr 19, 2017, at 5:46 AM, Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf () condition-alpha com> wrote:I have used ASN.1 in projects, and I would fully support Pascal's recommendation that it doesn't seem the best choice for Wireshark.It's the best choice for protocols specified in ASN.1 and using BER or PER. Unless we add ECN support, it's not the best choice for protocols not using BER or PER. [...]
Fully agree; that was exactly the background for my statement. If you have a well delineated use case where you can restrict it to one or two encodings, ASN.1 will do the job perfectly well. But for Wireshark, I think we cannot generally assume that no other encodings will occur. Cheers, --alex ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Re: Specifying dissectors declaratively Alexander Adolf (Apr 19)
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