Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Specifying dissectors declaratively
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From: Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 22:07:20 +0200
On 2017-04-19, at 20:51 , Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Apr 19, 2017, at 5:46 AM, Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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