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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/07/2015 20:23, Salz, Rich wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">1. Is there any good reason to remove this code?
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Yes. If it's not tested, reviewed, or in general use, then it's more likely to be harmful (source of bugs) than useful.
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<tt>That's an overly general criteria, and may be the source <br>
of your mysterious marauding of the APIs.</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>To objectively consider the potential harm of rarely used <br>
code, one must clearly determine if there is any way this <br>
code could be invoked inadvertently or remotely. For <br>
example the heartbeat code was obviously callable from <br>
network packets (even if it had no bugs), so needed this <br>
kind of cleanup, while the original eay DES API is only <br>
invokable from code that knows about it, and would thus <br>
not need to be removed for lack of use/testing.</tt><tt><br>
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<pre wrap="">2. Is this the OpenSSL name for the private key format
used by older Microsoft Authenticate tools (and thus
sometimes converted to/from PKCS#12 when switching
tool chains)?
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I think only really old ISS, but that's why I asked.</pre>
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<tt>I have no time to investigate, but I do not know the <br>
origin of why the existing code would call it "RSA_NET".</tt><br>
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<tt>I do know that the old format used by Authenticode was <br>
the RSA specific variant of the CryptoAPI 1 structure <br>
named simply PRIVATEKEYBLOB in Windows 2000 <br>
documentation.<br>
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<pre wrap="">3. Is this any of the formats used by SSH?
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No; the seven characters "RSA_NET" do not appear in the openssh source.
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