about-der-encoding-of-asn-1-types.md

description	How the ASN.1 data types supported by the Certificate Enrollment API are encoded by using Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER).
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title	DER Encoding of ASN.1 Types
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ms.date	05/31/2018

DER Encoding of ASN.1 Types

The following topics discuss how the ASN.1 data types supported by the Certificate Enrollment API are encoded by using Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER):

• BIT STRING
• BOOLEAN
• INTEGER
• NULL
• OBJECT IDENTIFIER
• OCTET STRING
• BMPString
• IA5String
• PrintableString
• UTF8String
• SEQUENCE
• SET

Related topics

ASN.1 Type System

DER Transfer Syntax

Distinguished Encoding Rules

Introduction to ASN.1 Syntax and Encoding