Mono Class Library: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoConfig Overview | Members

System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoConfig.EncodeOID Method

Convert the OID string (dotted notation) into an ASN.1 encoded OID. [Edit]

public static byte[] EncodeOID (string str)

Parameters

str
The OID string in dotted notation (e.g. "1.3.14.3.2.26"). [Edit]

Returns

A byte array containing the ASN.1 encoded OID. [Edit]

Remarks

A System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicUnexpectedOperationException will be thrown if the OID is invalid, like:

  • if the OID string has less than two parts (e.g. "0");
  • if the encoded OID would be greater than 127 bytes;

A OverflowException will be thrown if a part of the OID is bigger than int.int.MaxValue.

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Requirements

Namespace: System.Security.Cryptography
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0
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