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Re:BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS by unwind on Thursday November 03, 2016 @10:49AM (#12864371)
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.

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Re:BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Thursday November 03, 2016 @11:51AM (#12865021)
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?

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