Not to toot my own horn, but take a look at http://ests.bbn.com for a free ASN.1 to C++ compiler that runs on solaris 1 and 2 and has been ported (with relatively little effort) to Windows. Free for non-commercial use. Commercial use terms have unrestricted rights for runtime.

From <@relay3.uu.net:owner-cypherpunks@toad.com> Fri Mar 22 06:36 EST 1996 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 01:12:27 -0800 To: cypherpunks@toad.com From: tim@dierks.org (Tim Dierks) Subject: Re: ASN.1 Tools/Compilers Cc: frederick_zarndt@novell.com (Frederick Zarndt)

At 10:29 AM 3/21/96, Frederick Zarndt wrote:

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Does anyone know of reliable ASN.1 tools/compilers suitable for use on a wide range platforms?

I already know about the following tools/compilers, but I would appreciate comments anyone cares to make:

ISODE (who to contact for the DE?) Snacc

Thanks.

Frederick Zarndt Senior Software Engineer Novell, Inc 122 East 1700 South Provo UT 84606 USA

Tel 801 429-3348 Fax. 801 429-3500

I've recently been looking into this as well. I haven't looked at ISODE yet. Snacc looks reasonable, but can't handle big integers (> 2^32), which may make it hard to use for certificates, due to embedded RSA keys; I haven't yet checked to see what could be done about this. It's free; the compiler is under the GNU license, but the runtime is redistributable without fee or onerous restriction.

I also spoke to a company in NJ, Open Systems Solutions (609.987.9073), but their licensing terms were too expensive for my purposes. Their product runs on a lot of platforms and sounds very complete, but requires a licensed run-time environment. They currently support C and Pascal; C++ is coming. Their development environment starts at $11,500.

I'm also searching for an ASN.1 product. We can afford to pay for a compiler, but we need unrestrained distribution of the runtime in source form. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

You may wish to examine the ASN.1 homepage @: http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/asn1.html

Best, - Tim

Tim Dierks - Software Haruspex - tim@dierks.org Hastening the heat-death of the universe since 1968.