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From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MPI: Fix mpi_read_buffer
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:56:09 -0700
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On 09/15/2015 05:24 AM, Herbert Xu 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).
> I thought Tadeusz was just restoring the original behaviour, no?

That was the intention.
David, I can ran some more test if you have the key that was failing and
be willing to share it.