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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MPI: Fix mpi_read_buffer
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:09:56 +0100
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Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com> wrote:

> Change mpi_read_buffer to return a number without leading zeros
> so that mpi_read_buffer and mpi_get_buffer return the same thing.

Hmmm...  This would appear to have the undesirable side effect of causing 1
out of 256 module signing keys to be unusable (ie. those that begin with 00).

David