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Re: OCTET_STRING_t -> NSString?
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Re: OCTET_STRING_t -> NSString?


  • Subject: Re: OCTET_STRING_t -> NSString?
  • From: Todd Heberlein <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:52:39 -0700

Ka ching!  Yes, this answer is what I am looking for.  Thanks!!!

Todd

On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Stephen J. Butler wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Todd Heberlein <email@hidden> wrote:
>> In particular, the beginning of the OCTET_STRING_t's buffer begins with two bytes (decimal values 12 and 21). Am I supposed to skip these? For example, the following code where I skip these first two bytes seems to work, but it seems like a big hack:
>
> I'm not familiar with validating app store bundles, as I'm not
> (currently) a paid developer. But what is this, ANS.1 BER encoding?
> Then the first byte is the tag (the type of data to follow), the
> second byte the length (21), and then the next 21 bytes the data.
>
> Indeed, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Encoding_Rules)
> says that tag 12 is UTF8String. I'd recommend using liblber (man
> lber-decode) if you have to do anything other than basic work with
> this format.

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