asnkit 1.2.0

Deprecated

• The dictionaries of specifications in the runtime for Python:
  asnkitrt.runtime.load_dict() and asnkitrt.syntax.from_dict(),
  to_dict(), compiled_from_dict() and compiled_to_dict(). They
  warn with a DeprecationWarning, and are removed in 2.0. Load an
  .asni file or a compiled specification with asnkitrt.load(), and
  read the nodes of a syntax tree or a compiled specification instead.

asnkit 1.1.0

Added

• asnkitcc convert, which decodes a value with one codec and encodes
  it with another, as JER to DER, with an .asni file or ASN.1 files
  it compiles first. asnkitcc now depends on the runtime asnkitrt.
• The compiler for browsers and Node.js, as WebAssembly, in
  packages/asnkit-compiler-wasm: it compiles and parses the text of a
  specification, and signs, encrypts, binds and gives a nonce as
  asnkitcc does. It is on npm as asnkit-compiler.
• The runtime for C, in packages/asnkitrt-c: the Rust runtime as a
  shared and a static library, with the header asnkitrt.h. It is
  built from source.

Changed

• asnkit-compiler builds for wasm32-unknown-unknown, where it has no
  module plugin, as WebAssembly runs no programs. aes-gcm is used
  without its default features, which the compiler did not use.

• The option embed of the plugins asnkit-gen-python and
  asnkit-gen-rust: with embed=false, the module made does not have
  the compiled specification in it, and is given one that is loaded
  from a file, as one that is signed, encrypted, bound or has a nonce.
  The module of Python then has use_asni().

Fixed

• XER, in every runtime: a BOOLEAN is read only as <true/> or
  <false/>, and anything else is an error, where it was read as false.
  An OCTET STRING with an odd number of hexadecimal digits is ended by a
  zero (X.680 22.3), so <A>123</A> is 12 30, where it was 01 23.
  A BIT STRING and an OCTET STRING may have space in them (X.680 12.10,
  12.12), and the runtime for Python no longer takes 0b, _ or + in
  a BIT STRING. A carriage return in a string is written 
, as one
  written as it is is read as a line feed.
• The playground no longer tells a byte offset for an error in JER or
  XER, which the runtimes do not give.

asnkit 1.0.1

What the runtimes write and read now follows the standards where it
did not. Values that were encoded otherwise before are listed below.
The WebAssembly runtime 1.0.0 on npm was made after these changes, and
already has them.

Fixed

• GeneralizedTime: a time with a fraction of a second and a second of
  0 is written with its seconds, as a fraction after the minute is one
  of a minute (X.680 46.3). A decoder reads a fraction of a minute or of
  an hour, a time with no minute, an offset of hours only and a
  fraction of any number of digits, rounded down to the microsecond.
• JER: minus zero is the string "-0", and is read as minus zero
  (X.697 23.2). An ENUMERATED is always written as its name, also
  when the runtime gives numbers (X.697 22). A BIT STRING is written
  with the bytes of its bits only, the bits past them 0, and with named
  bits made the size of a fixed size (X.697 24.2).
• XER: a control character in a string is an empty element, as
  <bel/>, and is read back (X.680 12.15.5).
• TIME-OF-DAY and DATE-TIME: a value with a fraction of a second or
  an offset is rejected when encoding, as these types have neither
  (X.680 38.4). The WebAssembly runtime takes a Date for them as its
  time in UTC with no offset.
• A default of a SEQUENCE, a SET, a CHOICE, a SEQUENCE OF or a
  SET OF has the values of its members and items as their own types.
  The Rust runtime left out a member of an OCTET STRING or a BIT STRING in one.

Changed

• The WebAssembly runtime gives values to and takes them from the
  WebAssembly in one buffer, which encodes and decodes about twice as
  fast. An object is read by its own enumerable properties.
• The specification of the formats tells more of what a runtime needs:
  the values of the fields of the nodes, the limits of the CBOR, how a
  signature is verified, and what BER, JER and XER write where the
  standards let them choose.