Adam Wick
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This also adds a check in the synthesis of arbitary items of unknown type, to ensure that we don't accidentally create objects with a known type. I'm actually not 100% sure how the old tests were passing so reliably, which is worrying.
Overview
This is a simple library for parsing DER-encoded data.
In particular, this library automates the process of understanding the DER encoded objects in an ASN.1 data stream. These tokens can then be parsed by your library, based on the ASN.1 description in your format.
For convenience, we create the traits ToASN1 and FromASN to abstract the
ability to decode a type from an ASN.1 token stream. If your type implements one
of these traits, your program or library can then use the convenience functions
der_encode and der_decode to do all the parsing work in one action.
Patches welcome!