I consider Convert::ASN1 a replacement for my earlier Convert::BER module. While ASN1.pm is not as flexable as BER.pm, because PDUs must be described up fronta, it is also more powerful. For example an LDAP filter is a recursive structure, BER.pm cannot encode or decode this in a single pass, ASN1.pm can. Convert::ASN1 will parse ASN.1 descriptions and will encode from and decode to perl data structures using a hierarchy of references. Copyright (c) 2000 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The latest release is available from CPAN http://search.cpan.org/search?module=Convert::ASN1 INSTALL To install run these commands, substituting x.xx for the version number that you have downloaded gunzip Convert-ASN1-x.xx.tar.gz tar xvf Convert-ASN1-x.xx.tar cd Convert-ASN1-x.xx perl Makefile.PL make make test make install $Id: //depot/asn/README#2 $