[asterisk-dev] Make for res_jabber broken in svn trunk - needs new library

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 04:53:44PM +0100, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:
> libtasn1 is a library for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and 
> Distinguish Encoding Rules (DER) manipulation.
> 
> Whatever that means :)

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/languages/X.680-0207.pdf
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com10/languages/X.690_1297.pdf
respectively. Warning: not light reading :-)

(ASN.1 and DER provide a packed structured data format, used by LDAP and DNS
protocols amongst other things)