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Enhance "A Warm Welcome to ASN.1 and DER"
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Description
- Add a table of contents to the top of the doc
- Add a table containing the bit value to constructed vs primitive
- Add boolean to Encoding of specific types. The Layman's Guide doesn't and I needed to figure it out today. I had to go back to X.690 (07/02).
- Clarify what the high bit vs low bits are.
- Add a picture/diagram explaining how to read parse a byte. Example:
Context Specific
| Context Specific
| | Primitive
| | | Encoded tag values
| | | |-------|
| | | |
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
= 129
which in hex is 0x81
and when looking at the CRL IssuerDistributionPoint flag onlyContainsUserCerts: 30038101FF
RFC 5280 Section 5.2.5
IssuingDistributionPoint ::= SEQUENCE {
distributionPoint [0] DistributionPointName OPTIONAL,
onlyContainsUserCerts [1] BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE,
onlyContainsCACerts [2] BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE,
...
}
I can tell that the onlyContainsUserCerts flag is set and nothing else is.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Open the “A Warm Welcome to ASN.1 and DER” article and review the linked constructed-versus-primitive, encoding, X.690, and RFC 5280 references. Add the requested table of contents, bit-value and BOOLEAN explanations, high-bit/low-bit clarification, and byte-reading diagram; done means each requested concept is clear in the published document.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- hugo
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100