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  node-asn1 is a library for encoding and decoding ASN.1 datatypes in pure JS.
  Currently BER encoding is supported; at some point I'll likely have to do DER.
  
  ## Usage
  
  Mostly, if you're *actually* needing to read and write ASN.1, you probably don't
  need this readme to explain what and why.  If you have no idea what ASN.1 is,
  see this: ftp://ftp.rsa.com/pub/pkcs/ascii/layman.asc
  
  The source is pretty much self-explanatory, and has read/write methods for the
  common types out there.
  
  ### Decoding
  
  The following reads an ASN.1 sequence with a boolean.
  
      var Ber = require('asn1').Ber;
  
      var reader = new Ber.Reader(new Buffer([0x30, 0x03, 0x01, 0x01, 0xff]));
  
      reader.readSequence();
      console.log('Sequence len: ' + reader.length);
      if (reader.peek() === Ber.Boolean)
        console.log(reader.readBoolean());
  
  ### Encoding
  
  The following generates the same payload as above.
  
      var Ber = require('asn1').Ber;
  
      var writer = new Ber.Writer();
  
      writer.startSequence();
      writer.writeBoolean(true);
      writer.endSequence();
  
      console.log(writer.buffer);
  
  ## Installation
  
      npm install asn1
  
  ## License
  
  MIT.
  
  ## Bugs
  
  See <https://github.com/mcavage/node-asn1/issues>.