ASN.1 goes back to 1984. PKI goes back to 1988. If it were created today it would look a lot like OAuth JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and would use JSON instead of AS

ASN.1 goes back to 1984. PKI goes back to 1988. If it were created today it would look a lot like OAuth JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and would use JSON instead of ASN.1/DER.