Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ASN1.C and Packet-ACSE.c and Packet-pres.c

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

ASN1.C is the old obsolete API to handle BER/DER encoded protocols.
Please do not base any new dissectors on this,

The new API for BER/DER encoded protocols is packet-ber and the
asn2eth compilers.
All new protocols should use packet-ber


one by one  all existing dissectors using ans1.c  will be converted to
packet-ber and then asn1.c will be removed




On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:42:49 -0400, Herbert Falk <herb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A little history:
> 
> The ISO-9506 (MMS) protocol is an ASN1 BER encoded protocol that is
> emerging for use within the electric utility industry as IEC 61850.  I