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| -rw-r--r-- | src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/serialization.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/serialization.py b/src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/serialization.py index 448062d5..b95ac1cd 100644 --- a/src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/serialization.py +++ b/src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/serialization.py @@ -116,7 +116,11 @@ def _load_ssh_ecdsa_public_key(expected_key_type, decoded_data, backend): def _read_next_string(data): - """Retrieves the next RFC 4251 string value from the data.""" + """ + Retrieves the next RFC 4251 string value from the data. + + While the RFC calls these strings, in Python they are bytes objects. + """ str_len, = struct.unpack('>I', data[:4]) return data[4:4 + str_len], data[4 + str_len:] |