ASN.1 DER (Abstract Syntax Notation One, Distinguished Encoding Rules): JavaScript parsing library

ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) is a standard-backed serialization scheme used in many different use-cases. Particularly popular usage scenarios are X.509 certificates and some telecommunication / networking protocols.

DER is self-describing encoding scheme which allows representation of simple, atomic data elements, such as strings and numbers, and complex objects, such as sequences of other elements.

DER is a subset of BER (Basic Encoding Rules), with an emphasis on being non-ambiguous: there's always exactly one canonical way to encode a data structure defined in terms of ASN.1 using DER.

This spec allows full parsing of format syntax, but to understand the semantics, one would typically require a dictionary of Object Identifiers (OIDs), to match OID bodies against some human-readable list of constants. OIDs are covered by many different standards, so typically it's simpler to use a pre-compiled list of them, such as:

File extension

der

KS implementation details

License: CC0-1.0

References

This page hosts a formal specification of ASN.1 DER (Abstract Syntax Notation One, Distinguished Encoding Rules) using Kaitai Struct. This specification can be automatically translated into a variety of programming languages to get a parsing library.

Usage

Runtime library

All parsing code for JavaScript generated by Kaitai Struct depends on the JavaScript runtime library. You have to install it before you can parse data.

The JavaScript runtime library is available at npm:

npm install kaitai-struct

Code

See the usage examples in the JavaScript notes.

Parse structure from an ArrayBuffer:

var arrayBuffer = ...;
var data = new Asn1Der(new KaitaiStream(arrayBuffer));

After that, one can get various attributes from the structure by accessing fields or properties like:

data.typeTag // => get type tag

JavaScript source code to parse ASN.1 DER (Abstract Syntax Notation One, Distinguished Encoding Rules)

Asn1Der.js

// This is a generated file! Please edit source .ksy file and use kaitai-struct-compiler to rebuild

(function (root, factory) {
  if (typeof define === 'function' && define.amd) {
    define(['kaitai-struct/KaitaiStream'], factory);
  } else if (typeof module === 'object' && module.exports) {
    module.exports = factory(require('kaitai-struct/KaitaiStream'));
  } else {
    root.Asn1Der = factory(root.KaitaiStream);
  }
}(typeof self !== 'undefined' ? self : this, function (KaitaiStream) {
/**
 * ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) DER (Distinguished Encoding
 * Rules) is a standard-backed serialization scheme used in many
 * different use-cases. Particularly popular usage scenarios are X.509
 * certificates and some telecommunication / networking protocols.
 * 
 * DER is self-describing encoding scheme which allows representation
 * of simple, atomic data elements, such as strings and numbers, and
 * complex objects, such as sequences of other elements.
 * 
 * DER is a subset of BER (Basic Encoding Rules), with an emphasis on
 * being non-ambiguous: there's always exactly one canonical way to
 * encode a data structure defined in terms of ASN.1 using DER.
 * 
 * This spec allows full parsing of format syntax, but to understand
 * the semantics, one would typically require a dictionary of Object
 * Identifiers (OIDs), to match OID bodies against some human-readable
 * list of constants. OIDs are covered by many different standards,
 * so typically it's simpler to use a pre-compiled list of them, such
 * as:
 * 
 * * <https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/dumpasn1.cfg>
 * * <http://oid-info.com/>
 * * <https://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/top.html>
 * @see {@link https://www.itu.int/itu-t/recommendations/rec.aspx?rec=12483&lang=en|Source}
 */

var Asn1Der = (function() {
  Asn1Der.TypeTag = Object.freeze({
    END_OF_CONTENT: 0,
    BOOLEAN: 1,
    INTEGER: 2,
    BIT_STRING: 3,
    OCTET_STRING: 4,
    NULL_VALUE: 5,
    OBJECT_ID: 6,
    OBJECT_DESCRIPTOR: 7,
    EXTERNAL: 8,
    REAL: 9,
    ENUMERATED: 10,
    EMBEDDED_PDV: 11,
    UTF8STRING: 12,
    RELATIVE_OID: 13,
    SEQUENCE_10: 16,
    PRINTABLE_STRING: 19,
    IA5STRING: 22,
    SEQUENCE_30: 48,
    SET: 49,

    0: "END_OF_CONTENT",
    1: "BOOLEAN",
    2: "INTEGER",
    3: "BIT_STRING",
    4: "OCTET_STRING",
    5: "NULL_VALUE",
    6: "OBJECT_ID",
    7: "OBJECT_DESCRIPTOR",
    8: "EXTERNAL",
    9: "REAL",
    10: "ENUMERATED",
    11: "EMBEDDED_PDV",
    12: "UTF8STRING",
    13: "RELATIVE_OID",
    16: "SEQUENCE_10",
    19: "PRINTABLE_STRING",
    22: "IA5STRING",
    48: "SEQUENCE_30",
    49: "SET",
  });

  function Asn1Der(_io, _parent, _root) {
    this._io = _io;
    this._parent = _parent;
    this._root = _root || this;

    this._read();
  }
  Asn1Der.prototype._read = function() {
    this.typeTag = this._io.readU1();
    this.len = new LenEncoded(this._io, this, this._root);
    switch (this.typeTag) {
    case Asn1Der.TypeTag.PRINTABLE_STRING:
      this._raw_body = this._io.readBytes(this.len.result);
      var _io__raw_body = new KaitaiStream(this._raw_body);
      this.body = new BodyPrintableString(_io__raw_body, this, this._root);
      break;
    case Asn1Der.TypeTag.SEQUENCE_10:
      this._raw_body = this._io.readBytes(this.len.result);
      var _io__raw_body = new KaitaiStream(this._raw_body);
      this.body = new BodySequence(_io__raw_body, this, this._root);
      break;
    case Asn1Der.TypeTag.SET:
      this._raw_body = this._io.readBytes(this.len.result);
      var _io__raw_body = new KaitaiStream(this._raw_body);
      this.body = new BodySequence(_io__raw_body, this, this._root);
      break;
    case Asn1Der.TypeTag.SEQUENCE_30:
      this._raw_body = this._io.readBytes(this.len.result);
      var _io__raw_body = new KaitaiStream(this._raw_body);
      this.body = new BodySequence(_io__raw_body, this, this._root);
      break;
    case Asn1Der.TypeTag.UTF8STRING:
      this._raw_body = this._io.readBytes(this.len.result);
      var _io__raw_body = new KaitaiStream(this._raw_body);
      this.body = new BodyUtf8string(_io__raw_body, this, this._root);
      break;
    case Asn1Der.TypeTag.OBJECT_ID:
      this._raw_body = this._io.readBytes(this.len.result);
      var _io__raw_body = new KaitaiStream(this._raw_body);
      this.body = new BodyObjectId(_io__raw_body, this, this._root);
      break;
    default:
      this.body = this._io.readBytes(this.len.result);
      break;
    }
  }

  var BodySequence = Asn1Der.BodySequence = (function() {
    function BodySequence(_io, _parent, _root) {
      this._io = _io;
      this._parent = _parent;
      this._root = _root || this;

      this._read();
    }
    BodySequence.prototype._read = function() {
      this.entries = [];
      var i = 0;
      while (!this._io.isEof()) {
        this.entries.push(new Asn1Der(this._io, this, null));
        i++;
      }
    }

    return BodySequence;
  })();

  var BodyUtf8string = Asn1Der.BodyUtf8string = (function() {
    function BodyUtf8string(_io, _parent, _root) {
      this._io = _io;
      this._parent = _parent;
      this._root = _root || this;

      this._read();
    }
    BodyUtf8string.prototype._read = function() {
      this.str = KaitaiStream.bytesToStr(this._io.readBytesFull(), "UTF-8");
    }

    return BodyUtf8string;
  })();

  /**
   * @see {@link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/seccertenroll/about-object-identifier|Source}
   */

  var BodyObjectId = Asn1Der.BodyObjectId = (function() {
    function BodyObjectId(_io, _parent, _root) {
      this._io = _io;
      this._parent = _parent;
      this._root = _root || this;

      this._read();
    }
    BodyObjectId.prototype._read = function() {
      this.firstAndSecond = this._io.readU1();
      this.rest = this._io.readBytesFull();
    }
    Object.defineProperty(BodyObjectId.prototype, 'first', {
      get: function() {
        if (this._m_first !== undefined)
          return this._m_first;
        this._m_first = Math.floor(this.firstAndSecond / 40);
        return this._m_first;
      }
    });
    Object.defineProperty(BodyObjectId.prototype, 'second', {
      get: function() {
        if (this._m_second !== undefined)
          return this._m_second;
        this._m_second = KaitaiStream.mod(this.firstAndSecond, 40);
        return this._m_second;
      }
    });

    return BodyObjectId;
  })();

  var LenEncoded = Asn1Der.LenEncoded = (function() {
    function LenEncoded(_io, _parent, _root) {
      this._io = _io;
      this._parent = _parent;
      this._root = _root || this;

      this._read();
    }
    LenEncoded.prototype._read = function() {
      this.b1 = this._io.readU1();
      if (this.b1 == 130) {
        this.int2 = this._io.readU2be();
      }
      if (this.b1 == 129) {
        this.int1 = this._io.readU1();
      }
    }
    Object.defineProperty(LenEncoded.prototype, 'result', {
      get: function() {
        if (this._m_result !== undefined)
          return this._m_result;
        this._m_result = (this.b1 == 129 ? this.int1 : (this.b1 == 130 ? this.int2 : this.b1));
        return this._m_result;
      }
    });

    return LenEncoded;
  })();

  var BodyPrintableString = Asn1Der.BodyPrintableString = (function() {
    function BodyPrintableString(_io, _parent, _root) {
      this._io = _io;
      this._parent = _parent;
      this._root = _root || this;

      this._read();
    }
    BodyPrintableString.prototype._read = function() {
      this.str = KaitaiStream.bytesToStr(this._io.readBytesFull(), "ASCII");
    }

    return BodyPrintableString;
  })();

  return Asn1Der;
})();
return Asn1Der;
}));