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Informationen zum Autor John Larmouth was the Founding Director of the Information Technology Institute at the University of Salford, where he has worked for over twenty years. A graduate of Cambridge University, he has been involved with ASN.1 since its introduction as an ISO standard in the early 1980s. He served as Editor of the Standard for the first ten years of ASN.1's existence and has been ISO Rapporteur for ASN.1 for the past decade. Klappentext ASN.1 is a pervasive formal notation used to specify many protocols that allow different programs and devices -- including cellular phones and PDAs -- to communicate with one another. It is also widely used by the developers who implement these standards in software and chip-embedded programs. ASN.1 Complete teaches readers everything they need to know to use ASN.1 -- whether for specifying a new protocol or implementing and existing one in a software or hardware development project. The author begins with an overview of ASN.1's most common features! detailing and illustrating standard techniques for using them. He then goes on to apply the same practice-oriented approach to all of the notation's other features! as well as commercial ASN.1 tools! providing and easy-to-navigate! truly comprehensive tutorial. Zusammenfassung This is a comprehensive tutorial/reference book detailing the fundamental features and applications of the Abstract Syntax Notion One (ASN.1) programming language. ASN.1 is a formal language for abstractly describing messages to be exchanged between distributed computer systems.