PKCS10 ASN.1 decoding

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "SG" == Sandipan Gangopadhyay <sandipan at vsnl.com> writes:

  SG> Hi all.  I am trying to decode a PKCS#10 - Certification Request
  SG> Syntax Standard (no start and end headers as in PEM) in DER
  SG> format using base64.decode and am obtaining a string of
  SG> characters (binary ?) that I can make no sense of.

  SG> Is there any python module that knows how to decode a DER /
  SG> ASN.1 ?

There is an asn1 decoder in Pisces:
    http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/software/pisces/

There are a few bugs in the current version.  I am planning to release
a bug fix release in the next week or two.  If can mail you a copy of
the current pisces/asn1.py if that would help.

Jeremy