2026-11-08 22:06 UTC
Why are there always so many AA’s in these things?
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@darklamer@feddit.org 2026-11-08 22:31
AA… is the BASE64 encoding of 00…
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@Supercrunchy@programming.dev 2026-11-08 23:52
Usually the key format is not only a number but an ASN.1 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASN.1 ) encoded data structure, with many different fields for metadata, usage restrictions etc, so a lot of the bytes you have in there are actually not random at all. That text could have been the private key (as the joke implies), or could have been a metadata field which just gets ignored and signed by the CA.