| | What is ASN.1? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: Abstract Syntax Notation One |
 | | ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) is a standard way to describe a message (a unit of application data) that can be sent or received in a network. |
 | | ASN.1 is divided into two parts: (1) the rules of syntax for describing the contents of a message in terms of data type and content sequence or structure and (2) how you actually encode each data item in a message. |
 | | ASN.1 is defined in two ISO standards for applications intended for the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) framework: |
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