Eg. “uniroma3.it” looks like: 0x16 0x11 0x75 0x6E 0x69 0x72 0x6F 0x6D 0x61 0x33 0x2E 0x69 0x74 The CN are essentially represented the same way Pascal strings were, with the length that precede the values of characters. That is really different from how C strings are represented. In C, to which