11 Jan
2001
11 Jan
'01
8:50 a.m.
Encoding ASN.1 really eats space though, because of the nested nature of complex ASN.1... unless you do some tricks like I did in US patent 6,111,660.
It sure looks like the Umich LDAP library is prior art which invalidates most, if not all, of the independant claims. (At least 1 and 6, which are the key ones.) This library was documented in RFC 1823, published in August 1995. /r$