> Honestly, all my internal git commit messages are "...".

Very insightful about how security experts write security code, thanks! All that documentation which you hope to write some time - half of it should have been in your commit messages (that's what they teach on StackOverflow, no?)

Okay, that explains it, anyway. :)

I have absolutely nothing to say when it comes to crypto, but as a C dork I found it ... quirky that the encoding/decoding functions in inner.h (https://bearssl.org/gitweb/?p=BearSSL;a=blob;f=src/inner.h;h...) seem to use e.g. uint32_t to get a 32-bit type, while assuming that char is 8 bits (rather than using uint8_t). This seems strange.

I don't think it assumes it's 8 bits, but rather it assumes the values won't be outside the range of an 8 bit number, which should be fine, given that it's an octet-oriented protocol?

Using char pointers presumably is to get correct aliasing analysis?