.TH dumpasn1 1 User Manuals
.SH NAME
dumpasn1 \- ASN.1 object dump/syntax check program
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fB/usr/bin/dumpasn1 [\fIoptions\fB] \fIfile\fB
\f1
.SH 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.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB-\f1
Take input from stdin (some options may not work properly).
.TP
\fB-\f1\fInumber\f1
Start \fInumber\f1 bytes into the file.
.TP
\fB--\f1
End of arg list.
.TP
\fB-a\f1
Print all data in long data blocks, not just the first 128 bytes.
.TP
\fB-c\f1 \fIfile\f1
Read Object Identifier info from alternate config file (values will override equivalents in global config file)
.TP
\fB-d\f1
Print dots to show column alignment.
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\fB-e\f1
Don't print encapsulated data inside OCTET/BIT STRINGs.
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\fB-f\f1 \fIfile\f1
Dump object at offset -\fInumber\f1 to file (allows data to be extracted from encapsulating objects)
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\fB-h\f1
Hex dump object header (tag+length) before the decoded output
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\fB-hh\f1
Same as -h but display more of the object as hex data.
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\fB-l\f1
Long format, display extra info about Object Identifiers.
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\fB-o\f1
Don't check validity of character strings hidden in octet strings.
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\fB-p\f1
Pure ASN.1 output without encoding information.
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\fB-r\f1
Print bits in BIT STRING as encoded in reverse order
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\fB-s\f1
Syntax check only, don't dump ASN.1 structures.
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\fB-t\f1
Display text values next to hex dump of data.
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\fB-u\f1
Don't format UTCTime/GeneralizedTime string data.
.TP
\fB-x\f1
Display size and offset in hex not decimal.
.SH FILES
\fI./dumpasn1.cfg, $HOME/.dumpasn1.cfg, /etc/dumpasn1/dumpasn1.cfg\f1: This is the configuration file, it will be searched in this order. It contains OIDs commonly used.
.SH AUTHORS
qoute from Peter Gutmann:
ASN.1 object dumping code, copyright Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, based on ASN.1 dump program by David Kemp <dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil>, with contributions from various people including Matthew Hamrick <hamrick@rsa.com>, Bruno Couillard <bcouillard@chrysalis-its.com>, Hallvard Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>, Geoff Thorpe <geoff@raas.co.nz>, David Boyce <d.boyce@isode.com>, John Hughes <john.hughes@entegrity.com>, Life is hard, and then you die <ronald@trustpoint.com>, Hans-Olof Hermansson <hans-olof.hermansson@postnet.se>, Tor Rustad <Tor.Rustad@bbs.no>, Kjetil Barvik <kjetil.barvik@bbs.no>, James Sweeny <jsweeny@us.ibm.com>, and several other people whose names I've misplaced.
dumpasn1 is available at \fBhttp://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/\f1
.SH COMMENTS
This man page was written using \fBxml2man(1)\f1 by Oliver Kurth for Debian.