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		jmspring 61 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D As someone who extended the ASN.1 parser in the Netscape code base to handle PKCS#12 and at one point knew more about RSA standards and varios ASN.1 definitions than anyone should, I respect the blog owners diligence and masochism. It would not be the project I would pick out to learn D.

BradleyChatha 60 days ago [–]

> As someone who extended the ASN.1 parser in the Netscape code base to handle PKCS#12

Sounds like you have some fun potential war stories in that case.

jmspring 56 days ago | [–]

War story or nightmare? The asn.1 parsing in Netscape was an interesting beast. I also added some to a VPN I worked on while at another company.

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