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ggm on April 18, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenSSH versus SSH

ASN.1 is tiny. It's the encoding rules which add complications.

pixl97 on April 18, 2023 [–]

The rules for a turing machine are tiny... it's potential output is not. When you're looking for a small subset of well defined behaviors in order to maintain compatibility and application security those complications matter a lot.

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