[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | Fix parsing of BIT STRING encoded EdDSA keys (!2060)

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Zoltán Fridrich commented on a discussion on lib/pubkey.c: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/2060#note_3097910444

 >  			return gnutls_assert_val(_gnutls_asn2err(ret));
 >  
 >  		switch (tag) {
 > -		case 0x03:
 > -			etype = ASN1_ETYPE_BIT_STRING;
 > +		case 0x03: /* BIT STRING */
 > +			data_len = asn1_get_length_der(ecpoint->data + tag_len,
 > +						       ecpoint->size - tag_len,
 > +						       &len_len);
 > +			if (data_len < 0)
 > +				return gnutls_assert_val(
 > +					GNUTLS_E_ASN1_DER_ERROR);
 > +
 > +			/* skip first byte of data (number of unused bits at the end) */

Pointless. If its 0 it will fail with GNUTLS_E_ILLEGAL_PARAMETER because `raw_point.size != curve_size` would fail

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