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Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] [PATCH] Indicate Empty bitstrings in BER dissector

From: Stig Bjørlykke <stig.bjorlykke@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:46:29 +0100

Hi.

From X.690:

8.6.2.3 "If the bitstring is empty, there shall be no subsequentoctets, and the initial octet shall be zero."

The BER dissector marks empty bitstrings as "Padding", but I thinkit's better to mark this as "Empty".



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Stig Bjørlykke

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