Re: Specifying dissectors declaratively

[Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf () condition-alpha com>]

On 2017-04-19, at 20:51 , Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Apr 19, 2017, at 5:46 AM, Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf () condition-alpha com> wrote:
>
> > I have used ASN.1 in projects, and I would fully support Pascal's recommendation that it doesn't seem the best 
> > choice for Wireshark.
>
> It's the best choice for protocols specified in ASN.1 and using BER or PER.
>
> Unless we add ECN support, it's not the best choice for protocols not using BER or PER.
> [...]


Fully agree; that was exactly the background for my statement. If you have a well delineated use case where you can 
restrict it to one or two encodings, ASN.1 will do the job perfectly well. But for Wireshark, I think we cannot 
generally assume that no other encodings will occur.


Cheers,

  --alex
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