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/**
* Contains the Directory Server classes for performing encoding and decoding of
* ASN.1 elements. This is not specifically a protocol by itself, but it is
* used in several places throughout the Directory Server in areas like client
* communication and internal data encoding, and technically ASN.1 elements are
* considered to be Directory Server protocol elements.
* <BR><BR>
* Note that this particular implementation is limited to the subset of elements
* that are typically used by LDAP clients. As such, it does not include all
* ASN.1 element types, particularly elements like OIDs, bit strings, and
* timestamp values.
* <BR><BR>
* Also note that the contents of this package alone are not sufficient for a
* highly-performant and scalable LDAP implementation. The process of reading
* the outermost ASN.1 sequence that comprises the LDAPMessage envelope will
* best be done within the implementation for the LDAP connection handler.
*/