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Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) is a standard and notation that describes rules and structures for representing, encoding, transmitting, and decoding data in telecommunications and computer networking. ASN1js is a pure JavaScript library implementing this standard. ASN.1 is the basis of all X.509 related data structures and numerous other protocols used on the web.

ASN1js is the first library for BER encoding/decoding in Javascript designed for browser use. BER is the basic encoding rules for ASN.1 that all others are based on, DER is the encoding rules used by PKI applications - it is a subset of BER. The ASN1js library was tested against freely available ASN.1:2008 test suite, with some limitations related to JavaScript language.

• Fully object-oriented library. Inhiritence is using everywhere inside the lib;
• Working with HTML5 data objects (ArrayBuffer, Uint8Array etc.);
• Working with all ASN.1:2008 types;
• Working with BER encoded data;
• All types inside the library constantly stores information about all ASN.1 sub blocks (tag block, length block or value block);
• User may have access to any byte inside any ASN.1 sub-block;
• Any sub-block may have unlimited length, as it described in ASN.1 standard (even "tag block");
• Ability to work with ASN.1 string date types (intcluding all "international" strings like UniversalString, BMPString, UTF8String) by passing native JavaScript strings into constuctors. And vice versa - all initially parsed data of ASN.1 string types right after decoding automatically converts into native JavaScript strings;
• Same with ASN.1 date-time types: for major types like UTCTime and GeneralizedTime there are automatic convertion between "JS date type - ASN.1 date-time type" + vice versa;
• Working with "easy-to-understand" ASN.1 schemas (pre-defined or built by user);
• Has special types to work with ASN.1 schemas:
  • ANY
  • CHOICE
  • REPEATED
• User can name any block inside ASN.1 schema and easily get information by name;
• All types inside library are dynamic;
• All types can be initialized in static or dynamic ways.

    // #region How to create new ASN. structures 
    var sequence = new org.pkijs.asn1.SEQUENCE();
    sequence.value_block.value.push(new org.pkijs.asn1.INTEGER({ value: 1 }));

    var sequence_buffer = sequence.toBER(false); // Encode current sequence to BER (in ArrayBuffer)
    var current_size = sequence_buffer.byteLength;

    var integer_data = new ArrayBuffer(8);
    var integer_view = new Uint8Array(integer_data);
    integer_view[0] = 0x01;
    integer_view[1] = 0x01;
    integer_view[2] = 0x01;
    integer_view[3] = 0x01;
    integer_view[4] = 0x01;
    integer_view[5] = 0x01;
    integer_view[6] = 0x01;
    integer_view[7] = 0x01;

    sequence.value_block.value.push(new org.pkijs.asn1.INTEGER({
        is_hex_only: true,
        value_hex: integer_data
    })); // Put too long for decoding INTEGER value

    sequence_buffer = sequence.toBER(false);
    current_size = sequence_buffer.byteLength;
    // #endregion 

    // #region How to create new ASN.1 structures by calling constuctors with parameters 
    var sequence2 = new org.pkijs.asn1.SEQUENCE({
        value: [
            new org.pkijs.asn1.INTEGER({ value: 1 }),
            new org.pkijs.asn1.INTEGER({
                is_hex_only: true,
                value_hex: integer_data
            }),
        ]
    });
    // #endregion 

    // #region How to validate ASN.1 against pre-defined schema 
    var asn1_schema = new org.pkijs.asn1.SEQUENCE({
        name: "block1",
        value: [
            new org.pkijs.asn1.NULL({
                name: "block2"
            }),
            new org.pkijs.asn1.INTEGER({
                name: "block3",
                optional: true // This block is absent inside data, but it's "optional". Hence verification against the schema will be passed.
            })
        ]
    });
    // #endregion

    var variant1 = org.pkijs.verifySchema(encoded_sequence, asn1_schema); // Verify schema together with decoding of raw data
    var variant1_verified = variant1.verified;
    var variant1_result = variant1.result; // Verified decoded data with all block names inside

More examples could be found in "examples" directory or inside PKIjs library.

• C++ ASN1:2008 BER coder/decoder - the "father" of ASN1js project;
• Freely available ASN.1:2008 test suite - the suite which can help you to validate (and better understand) any ASN.1 coder/decoder;

At this time this library should be considered suitable for research and experimentation, futher code and security review is needed before utilization in a production application.

Copyright (c) 2014, GMO GlobalSign All rights reserved.

Author 2014, Yury Strozhevsky.

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