pyderasn 8.1

Python ASN.1 DER/CER/BER codec with abstract structures

PyDERASN – strict and fast ASN.1 DER/CER/BER library for Python

I’m going to build my own ASN.1 library with slots and blobs! (C) PyDERASN’s author

• BER/CER/DER decoding, strict DER validation, DER/CER encoding
• Basic ASN.1 data types (X.208): BOOLEAN, INTEGER, BIT STRING, OCTET STRING, NULL, OBJECT IDENTIFIER, ENUMERATED, all strings, UTCTime, GeneralizedTime, CHOICE, ANY, SEQUENCE (OF), SET (OF)
• Size constraints checking
• Working with sequences as high level data objects with ability to (un)marshall them
• Aimed to be complaint with X.690-201508
• Streaming decoding and encoding capabilities, allowing working with very small memory footprint
• Python 2.7/3.5/3.6 compatibility
• Automatic decoding of DEFINED BY fields
• Ability to know exact decoded objects offset and lengths in the binary
• Ability to allow BER-encoded data with knowing if any of specified field has either DER or BER encoding (or possibly indefinite-length encoding)
• Ability to use mmap-ed files, memoryviews, iterators, 2-pass DER encoding mode and CER encoder dealing with the writer, giving ability to create huge ASN.1 encoded files with very little memory footprint
• Ability to decode files in event generation mode, without the need to keep all the data and decoded structures in the memory
• __slots__, copy.copy() friendliness
• Workability with pickle
• Cython compatibility
• Descriptive errors, with decode paths
• Pretty printer and command-line decoder, that could conveniently replace utilities like either dumpasn1 or openssl asn1parse

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