dumpasn1(1)

NAME

dumpasn1 - ASN.1 object dump/syntax check program

SYNOPSIS

dumpasn1 [-acdefghilmoprstuvwxz] <file>

DESCRIPTION

An ASN.1 object dump program which will dump data encoded using any of the ASN.1 encoding rules in a variety of user-specified formats.

DumpASN1 - ASN.1 object dump/syntax check program. Copyright Peter Gutmann 1997 - 2021. Last updated 12 February 2021.

: Input options:

: - = Take input from stdin (some options may not work properly) -<number> = Start <number> bytes into the file -- = End of arg list -c<file> = Read Object Identifier info from alternate config file

: (values will override equivalents in global config file)

: Output options:

-f<file> = Dump object at offset -<number> to file (allows data to be

: extracted from encapsulating objects)

-w<number> = Set width of output, default = 80 columns

: Display options:

-a = Print all data in long data blocks, not just the first 128 bytes

-d = Print dots to show column alignment

-g = Display ASN.1 structure outline only (no primitive objects)

-h = Hex dump object header (tag+length) before the decoded output

-hh = Same as -h but display more of the object as hex data

-i = Use shallow indenting, for deeply-nested objects

-l = Long format, display extra info about Object Identifiers

-m<number>: = Maximum nesting level for which to display content

-p = Pure ASN.1 output without encoding information

-t = Display text values next to hex dump of data

-v = Verbose mode, equivalent to -ahlt

: Format options:

-e = Don't print encapsulated data inside OCTET/BIT STRINGs

-r = Print bits in BIT STRING as encoded in reverse order

-u = Don't format UTCTime/GeneralizedTime string data

-x = Display size and offset in hex not decimal

: Checking options:

-o = Don't check validity of character strings hidden in octet strings

-s = Syntax check only, don't dump ASN.1 structures

-z = Allow zero-length items

Warnings generated by deprecated OIDs require the use of '-l' to be displayed. Program return code is the number of errors found or EXIT_SUCCESS.

COMMENT

This manual page was written by Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used by others.

FILES

$HOME/.dumpasn1.cfg, /etc/dumpasn1/dumpasn1.cfg:

This is the configuration file, it will be searched in this order. It contains OIDs commonly used.

AUTHOR

quote from Peter Gutmann:

ASN.1 object dumping code, copyright Peter Gutmann <[email protected]>, based on ASN.1 dump program by David Kemp <[email protected]>, with contributions from various people including Matthew Hamrick <[email protected]>, Bruno Couillard <[email protected]>, Hallvard Furuseth <[email protected]>, Geoff Thorpe <[email protected]>, David Boyce <[email protected]>, John Hughes <[email protected]>, Life is hard, and then you die <[email protected]>, Hans-Olof Hermansson <[email protected]>, Tor Rustad <[email protected]>, Kjetil Barvik <[email protected]>, James Sweeny <[email protected]>, and several other people whose names I've misplaced.

dumpasn1 is available at https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/