Why remove trailing padding from base64 encoded fingerprint?

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2019, Mark Leonard wrote:

> From sshkey.c (line 925):
> 
>         /* Trim padding characters from end */
>         ret[strcspn(ret, "=")] = '\0';
>         return ret;
> 
> Why remove the trailing padding from the Base64 encoded key fingerprint?  I
> recognize that it's easy enough to re-pad the string, but I'm just curious
> why it's being removed in the first place.

Just to make the result more human readable.

-d