Re: Asymmetric key pairs storage format

Thomas Pornin <pornin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
According to Mark Wooding <mdw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I really must recommend against the use of ASN.1 for anything security
critical.

However, ASN.1 begins to look good when the alternative is XML.

You're confusing definition and encoding.
ASN.1 can happily have XML rendering as its back end (XER).
(front end? arse end? who knows!)


Phil
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