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From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] crypto: akcipher - Changes to asymmetric key API
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 09:44:59 -0700
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On 09/09/2015 09:41 AM, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>> >It is BER (Basic Encoding Rules), which is also valid DER (Distinguished
>> >Encoding Rules)
> I was just mentioning that since the ASN.1 structure now is equivalent to 
> OpenSSL and what DER specifies. I just wanted to suggest to allow readers to 
> establish a connection between OpenSSL DER encoded keys and the keys we use 

Since DER is a valid BER it will work for both.