Re: Handling of unexpected ASN.1

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:26:23AM -0000, Chris Ridd wrote:
> > Are you saying an option to skip anything unknown and ignore extra at end
> > of sequences, just as long as everything expected is extracted ?
> 
> Something like that.
> 
> > That sounds simple, but becomes more complex when you have to consider the
> > situation where a new element is added before an existing element which is
> > already optional.
> 
> Hm. If we limited this to just ignoring stuff at the end would it be
> simpler?

Yes, I think that would be simpler to implement.

Graham.