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- From: jpalme@dsv.SU.SE (Jacob Palme DSV)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
- Subject: Question about the SET construct of ASN.1
- Message-ID: <223791*jpalme@su-kom.dsv.su.se>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 08:41:06 GMT
- Sender: daemon@vall.dsv.su.se
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- I have a question about the SET construct in ASN.1.
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- I know that the SET construct allows the agent which encodes in ASN.1
- to put the elements in arbitrary order.
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- My question is: Does this mean that the order of the element
- is totally insignificant, and that the construct might be unpacked
- and packet with a different order of the elements during
- transmission?
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- Or can one assume that the order in which the elements were coded
- by the encoding agent will be preserved when the deconding agent
- unpacks the ASN.1 structure?
-