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BER: Basic Encoding Rules

Basic Encoding Rules (BER), defined in the ITU-T X.209, refer to the rules for data encoding/decoding described in the ASN.1 standard (defined in ITU-T X.208). Basic Encoding Rules may be used to derive the specification of a transfer syntax for values of types defined using the ASN.1 specified in Recommendation X.208. A single ASN.1 object may have several equivalent BER encodes. BER is one of the two encoding methods currently used by CryptoAPI.

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BER: Basic Encoding Rules