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ASN.1 as used by Internet PKIX X.509 uses [1] a form known as DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) which provide a canonical way encoding any particular value such that any particular value can take only one specific form.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.1




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