ASN.1 Homepage

General

• What's New ?
• Do you have something to add to this list or do you observe any problems with the links ? Send e-mail to hoschka@sophia.inria.fr.
• In my thesis work, I developed a method that allows generating efficient ASN.1 code that is not too big to be practical.

Tutorials

• Layman's Guide to ASN.1 with bug corrections (last link broken - tell me if you find a working one)
• NIST ASN.1 Tutorial and Tool
• Book Chapter on ASN.1 from John Larmouth's book "Understanding OSI"

Software Tools

• ASN.1 Compiler Mavros.
• ASN.1 Compiler Snacc
  • Version 1.1(University of British Columbia, Mike Sample)
  • New Version(GMD FOKUS, Berlin, Robert Joop, rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de)
• ASN2CXX(Commercial ASN.1 Compiler)
• Objective Systems ACN1C and ASN1CPP (Commercial ASN.1 Compiler)
• NIST ASN.1 Free Value Tool
• OCLC BER utilities
• National Center for Biotechnology Information toolbox
• OSS ASN.1 Tools (Commercial ASN.1 compiler)
• Meessen's SNMPv1/v2 BER package
• A parser for the ASN.1-90 Syntax(Christian Rinderknecht, INRIA)
• ASN.1 to Chill compiler(commercial)
• BBN's ASN.1 to C++ compiler (link broken - tell me if you find a working one)
• OSIMIS environment to develop CMIP-GDMO network management applications
• List of other ASN.1 tools 1
• List of other ASN.1 tools 2

ASN.1 based applications and projects

• Transmission Protocols for Audiographic Teleconferencing T.120 (link broken - tell me if you find a working one)
• HTTP-Next Generation
• Information Retrieval Wais/Z.3950 (link broken - tell me if you find a working one)
• Simple Network Management SNMP
• GenBank, the NIH genetic sequence database collecting all known DNA sequences worldwide
• Network authentication Kerberos
• X.500 93 Standard Documents including ASN.1 spec.
• E-Mail X.400 (link broken - tell me if you find a working one)
• Manufacturing Message System MMS
• Other OSI application layer protocols (link broken - tell me if you find a working one)
• Distributed scientific computing - ELROS
• List of projects in an e-mail message of Bancroft Scott.
• List of projects in an e-mail message of Ralph Mackiewicz.

ASN.1 Mailing lists

• snacc@cs.ubc.ca: User Group for snacc ASN.1 compiler. To subscribe: snacc-request@cs.ubc.ca.
• asn1@oss.com:ASN.1 disussion list To subscribe: asn1-request@oss.com.

ASN.1 Standard documents

These documents are available only by subscription from ITU. See the ITU server for more info.

Stub compilers for IDL's other than ASN.1

• CORBA Inter-ORB Engine(not really a compiler, but ...) (link broken - tell me if you find a working one)
• OSF/DCE RPC compiler
• Sun ONC RPC compiler
• The DFN Remote Procedure Call Tool (link broken - tell me if you find a working one)
• USC
• Report on a free stub compiler for C++ (Arjuna project)