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<refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class="date">16 Jun 2008</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man1;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

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<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm><indexterm><primary> a library for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1).

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<refnamediv id="libtasn1-3-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname><refpurpose>a library for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)</refpurpose></refnamediv>

<refsect1 id="libtasn1-3-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

<para><literal>&cmd;</literal> is a library for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and Distinguish Encoding Rules (DER) manipulation.

</para>

<para>The main features of this library are:

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On-line ASN.1 structure management that does not require any C code file

generation.

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<listitem>

Off line ASN.1 structure management with C code file generation containing an

array

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<listitem>

DER (Distinguish Encoding Rules) encoding

</listitem>

<listitem>

No limits for INTEGER and ENUMERATED values

</listitem>

<listitem>

It is thread-safe. No global variables are used and multiple library handles

and session handles may be used in parallel

</listitem>

<listitem>

It is portable. It should work on all UNIX-like operating systems, including

Windows. The library itself should be portable to any C89 system, not even

POSIX is required

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

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<refsect1 id="libtasn1-3-file"><title>&file-tt;</title>

<para>The following files are used by this application:</para>

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<term><filename>/usr/lib/&cmd;.so</filename></term>

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&cmd; shared library

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<refsect1 id="libtasn1-3-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>

<para>See <olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-3"><citerefentry>

<refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:</para>

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<row><entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry><entry align="center"

valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row><entry><para>Availability</para></entry><entry><para>library/libtasn1</para></entry></row>

<row><entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry><entry colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Volatile</para></entry></row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libcamel-1-2-3-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgnutls</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-interfaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</para>

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<literal>http://josefsson.org/gnutls/manual/libtasn1/libtasn1.html</literal>

</varlistentry>

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<refsect1 id="libtasn1-3-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

<para>Written by Jeff Cai, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.</para>

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