Re: SSH in ECC Internet Draft

[Markus Friedl <markus%openssh.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 02:54:45PM -0400, Jon Green wrote:
>    The data types boolean, uint32, uint64, string, and mpint are to be
>    interpreted in this document as described in RFC 4251 [1].
> 
>    This document uses Abstract Syntax Notation (ASN.1) define some
>    communication.  This is in keeping with current ECC standards.  All
>    ASN.1 variables are DER encoded before being sent.  Information about
>    the ASN.1 and DER can be found in ITU-T recommendation X.680 [7] and
>    ITU-T recommendation X.690 [8].

is it really necessary to use ASN.1 encoding?  this is rather scary
and does not fit well into the data type scheme defined in RFC 4251.