Re: text encoded in oid values - documentation?

On Jan 21, 11:06 am, Praki <visitprakashin...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 21, 1:43 am, steve <quint...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The tail of some OIDs are encoded as ascii strings.
the only documentation I can find is from Microsoft:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318464

Anyone know of an RFC or some other authoritative source?

I am planning to translate these on the fly, I have seen instances of
two levels of hierarchy - two text strings each prefixed with its
length.
Can I assume that if a length followed by printable ascii characters
(or are they utf-8 ?) then I have a name, provided the sequence of
names
continues to exactly the end of the OID.

Thanks for any ideas.

-Steve

Hi Steve

have took of this documenthttp://www.rane.com/note161.html
it might help

Thanks,
Prakash

Thanks, however this doesn't seem to explain the problem I described.

I may not have been clear. I understand things like BER octstr and ASN.
1 DisplayString.

What I what is a standards doecument (RFC or otherwise) which
describes the use of OIDs sequences
to encode the name of the OID in ASCII, taking the microsoft example I
quoted:

the OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.13.1.5.97.116.97.112.105 represents

which is 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.13.1 followed by a length 5 string "ATAPI"

anyone know where this might be documented?

-Steve


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