Class DerOctetString

Initialize the DER object according to a specific type.

The ASN.1 type is either specified as the ASN.1 string (e.g. 'SEQUENCE'), directly with its numerical tag or with no tag at all (None).

Overrides: DerObject.__init__

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Decode a complete DER element, and re-initializes this object with it.

@param derEle A complete DER element. It must start with a DER T

tag.

@param noLeftOvers Indicate whether it is acceptable to complete the

parsing of the DER element and find that not all bytes in derEle have been used.

@return Index of the first unused byte in the given DER element.

Raises a ValueError exception in case of parsing errors. Raises an IndexError exception if the DER element is too short.

Overrides: DerObject.decode

(inherited documentation)