Re:Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
by stormbrew on Thursday December 23, 2021 @12:27AM
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I assume they meant the binary encodings of asn.1 like BER/DER.
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And tangentially PEM, which is Base64-encoded DER.
That’s what I thought until recently, but it turns out that PEM refers to just base64 wrapped with ——BEGIN—— and ——END—— lines, and the encapsulated data does not have to be DER.