Allowing private keys without a newline at the end

Jochen Bern Jochen.Bern at binect.de
Fri Jul 25 19:35:10 AEST 2025


On 24.07.25 08:37, Jan Schermer wrote:
> Why not support it as long as it can be loaded?

To play the advocate of the lawful good, in the worst possible case, we 
could find that relaxing syntax requirements made manipulated key files 
possible where different software versions see/load *different* keys 
in/from it. :-3

Kind regards,
-- 
Jochen Bern
Systemingenieur

Binect GmbH
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