Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ASN.1 AS

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:27:36 -0700
Blair, William wrote:
In looking at a NFS trace I ran across ASN.1 packets. What are their purpose?
"ASN.1 packets" are like "ONC RPC packets" - merely from the fact that a packet happens to be encapsulated as ASN.1 you cannot infer the purpose of the packet. ASN.1 is a way of encoding data structures (just as ONC RPC's XDR is); many different protocols, with different purposes, use it.
What identifies them as ASN.1? Are they just presented as ASN.1, or are they presented as, for example, Kerberos?