From 2dac8eef2080ca16a04c7ee0a009602417aded49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hubert Kario Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 16:28:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] der: make the comment unambiguous the X.690 refers to bits from 1 to 8 rather than from 0 to 7 use the "MSB" as an unambiguous name --- src/ecdsa/der.py | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/ecdsa/der.py b/src/ecdsa/der.py index 7db20f71..ad75b37b 100644 --- a/src/ecdsa/der.py +++ b/src/ecdsa/der.py @@ -219,7 +219,8 @@ def read_number(string): llen = 0 if str_idx_as_int(string, 0) == 0x80: raise UnexpectedDER("Non minimal encoding of OID subidentifier") - # base-128 big endian, with b7 set in all but the last byte + # base-128 big endian, with most significant bit set in all but the last + # byte while True: if llen >= len(string): raise UnexpectedDER("ran out of length bytes")