Definition of Basic encoding rules

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Basic Encoding Rules
<protocolstandard> (BER) ASN.1 encoding rules for producing self-identifying and self-delimiting transfer syntax for data structures described in ASN.1 notations.
BER is an self-identifying and self-delimiting encoding scheme, which means that each data value can be identified, extracted and decoded individually.
Huw Rogers once described BER as "a triumph of bloated theory over clean implementation". He also criticises it as designed around bitstreams with arbitrary boundaries between data which can only be determined at a high level.
Documents: ITU-T X.690, ISO 8825-1.
See also CERDERPER.
(1998-05-28)

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Basic Encoding Rules
Standard rules for encoding data units described in ASN.1. Sometimes incorrectly lumped under the term ASN.1, which properly refers only to the abstract syntax description language, not the encoding technique. See also: Abstract Syntax Notation One. [Source: NNSC]


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basic encoding rules
(ber) asn.1 encoding rules for producing self-identifying and self-delimiting transfer syntax for data structures described in asn.1 notations.



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Basic Encoding Rules
The Basic Encoding Rules (BER), are one of the encoding formats defined as part of the ASN.1 standard.

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