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/* $Id: ber_type.h,v 1.7 2002/03/13 02:05:13 jmckee Exp $ */
/*
 * Copyright (C) 1998-2002 RSA Security Inc. All rights reserved. This
 * work contains proprietary information of RSA Security Inc. Distribution
 * is limited to authorized licensees of RSA Security Inc. Any unauthorized
 * reproduction or distribution of this work is strictly prohibited.
 */
/**
 * @file
 * This file contains the ASN.1 types used when performing BER (Basic
 * Encoding Rules) encoding and decoding operations.
 */

#ifndef HEADER_COMMON_BER_TYPE_H
#define HEADER_COMMON_BER_TYPE_H

#ifdef  __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/**
 * End of content for encoded items with unspecified length.
 */
#define BER_EOC                  0

/**
 * Either "true" or "false" as per the ASN.1 boolean values,
 * BER_TRUE and BER_FALSE.
 */
#define BER_BOOLEAN              1

/**
 * Effectively unbounded but commonly used to hold values
 * that will fit into a long.
 */
#define BER_INTEGER              2

/**
 * An array of bytes in which the first byte is the number of bits to
 * discard from the end.
 */
#define BER_BIT_STRING           3

/**
 * An 8-bit (hexadecimal byte) array or byte array.
 */
#define BER_OCTET_STRING         4

/**
 * A BER object that has no data, used when data is specified for the
 * general case but none is required in a specific case.
 */
#define BER_NULL                 5

/**
 * A BER object used to hold an ASN.1 identifier that describes the make-up
 * of the rest of the constructed elements.
 */
#define BER_OBJECT               6

/**
 * An indefinitely long string of characters (plus space) used to describe an
 * object.
 */
#define BER_OBJECT_DESCRIPTOR    7

/**
 * Embedded material that is not defined using ASN.1
 * (for example, a GIF image). This type is deprecated in favour
 * of BER_EMBEDDED_PDV.
 */
#define BER_EXTERNAL             8

/**
 * A comma-separated list of three integers for the mantissa, the base
 * (2 or 10), and the exponent. (Also PLUS-INFINITY and MINUS-INFINITY.) <br>
 * Hence, {x, y, z} is (x times (y to the power z)), where y is allowed to
 * take only the values 2 and 10.
 */
#define BER_REAL                 9

/**
 * A comma-separated list of names.
 */
#define BER_ENUMERATED          10

/**
 * Embedded material that is not defined using ASN.1
 * (for example, a GIF image). Supercedes BER_EXTERNAL.
 */
#define BER_EMBEDDED_PDV        11

/**
 * A character string which may contain characters from any language.
 */
#define BER_UTF8STRING          12

/**
 * A constructed type that is used to hold an ordered list of elements.
 */
#define BER_SEQUENCE            16

/**
 * A constructed type that is used to hold a list of repeating elements.
 */
#define BER_SET                 17

/**
 * A string of characters containing the digits zero to 9 and space.
 */
#define BER_NUMERICSTRING       18

/**
 * A character array that only allows a small subset of values, namely
 * [A-Z] [a-z] [0-9] and [ '()+,-./:=?].
 */
#define BER_PRINTABLESTRING     19

/**
 * A deprecated synonym for BER_TELETEXSTRING.
 */
#define BER_T61STRING           20

/**
 * A character string that allows register entries 6, 87, 102, 103, 106, 107,
 * 126, 144, 150, 153, 156, 164, 165 and 168 (plus space and delete)
 * of the International Register of Coded Character Sets.
 */
#define BER_TELETEXSTRING       20

/**
 * A character string that allows gives access to the "characters" used to
 * build crude pictures on videotext systems.
 */
#define BER_VIDEOTEXSTRING      21

/**
 * A character string that allows register entries 1 and 6 (plus space and
 * delete) of the International Register of Coded Character Sets to be used
 * with Escape Sequences.
 */
#define BER_IA5STRING           22

/**
 * A character string representing the date and time in the format: <br>
 * ddmmyyhhmmssZ.
 */
#define BER_UTCTIME             23

/**
 * A character string representing the date and time in the format: <br>
 * ddmmyyyyhhmmssZ.
 */
#define BER_GENERALIZEDTIME     24

/**
 * A character string that allows any of the Register Entries in the
 * International Register for printable characters other than
 * the control character entries.
 */
#define BER_GRAPHICSTRING       25

/**
 * A deprecated synonym for BER_VISIBLESTRING.
 */
#define BER_ISO64STRING         26

/**
 * A character string that allows register entry 6
 * of the International Register of Coded Character Sets to be used with
 * Escape Sequences.
 */
#define BER_VISIBLESTRING       26

/**
 * A character string that allows any of the Register Entries in the
 * International Register for printable characters.
 */
#define BER_GENERALSTRING       27

/**
 * A character string which may contain characters from any language
 * without using combining characters.
 */
#define BER_UNIVERSALSTRING     28

/**
 * A character string which may contain characters from any living
 * language.
 */
#define BER_BMPSTRING           30

/** The boolean value "false" for the BER_BOOLEAN ASN.1 type */
#define BER_FALSE        0
/** The boolean value "true" for the BER_BOOLEAN ASN.1 type */
#define BER_TRUE        255

#ifdef  __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* !HEADER_COMMON_BER_TYPE_H */

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