Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Asn.1 and indefinite length.

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sid,

I would like to update packet-ber.c to handle indefinite length properly.

Do you have any traces where indefinite length is a problem? 
I will then try to fix the issues in packet-ber.c based on Anders
ans2eth generated FTAM implementation.




On 5/20/05, Yuriy Sidelnikov <YSidelnikov@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> analyzing some new ftam trace files I found that the indefinite length in 
> the ASN.1 is not so rare thing as I thought.
> So I would like to have correct ASN.1 API.
> The question is that neither obsolete asn1.c nor new packet-ber.c can handle
> 
> with the indefinite length in asn.1 stream.
> So what is the better:
> 1.Add support for the indefinite length say "over" asn1.c.It is not very 
> hard so we'll have working dissector pretty soon.Really I need only one 
> thing more - to get correct length in case of the indefinite length.
> 2.Try to use new api in the packet-ftam/acse/pres keeping in mind that 
> somebody will be so kind to add the support for the indefinite length. It's
> 
> not very easy way to go. 
> 
> Regards,
> Yuriy Sidelnikov. 
> 
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