Re: [openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4301] [BUG] OpenSSL 1.1.0-pre2 fails to parse x509 certificate in DER format

[Salz, Rich]

If arbitrary leading zero's were allowed in DER, then the encoding wouldn't be 
*distinguished*, i.e., unique.

In BER, almost anything goes :)

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