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From: auerbach@CSL.SRI.COM (Karl Auerbach)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Size distribution of ASN.1 octet and bit strings
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Date: 12 Jun 89 15:06:19 GMT
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Hi -- I'm building a new ASN.1 tool and I am trying to optimize my
buffering strategies.  I run into some problems, however, with octet
and bit strings because of they can sometimes be huge, in theory.

What I am wondering is whether any of you out there have any
practical measures of the distribution of octet and bit string sizes
that occur in real life.  (Just to make things easier, I don't mind
ignorring X.400 -- I know the strings in there are potentially
gigantic.)

				--karl--