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diff --git a/security/py-asn1/DESCR b/security/py-asn1/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1e97fb784fd --- /dev/null +++ b/security/py-asn1/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +ASN.1 tools for Python + +Whenever data structures are described in some machine and programming +language independent and unambiguous way, such specification is called +abstract syntax, by contrast with machine/language specific methods, +which are called 'concrete' or 'transfer' syntaxes. + +Abstract syntaxes appear useful in networking as a tool for engineering +protocols in a clear and portable way. Moreover, once a protocol is +described in some abstract language, protocol parsers and builders +could be automatically generated for various computing +architectures/programming languages, thus saving engineers from +implementing low-level transport details by hand. + +Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) is a set of ITU standards +defining particular implementation of abstract data description +language accompanied by a collection of transfer encoding methods. +Perhaps the most widely used among these data serialization methods +is Basic Encoding Rules (BER) together with its derivatives (DER and +CER), while Packed Encoding Rules (PER) aims at most compact data +representation whilst in the wire. |