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Fix SSH_PUBKEYINFO, limit characters, add tests We fix a bad_bufptr() failure from a previous commit. We now limit the allowed characters to those that will definitely be safe in a shell. Some scripts/programs may use arbitrary environment variables without escaping correctly - that could be a problem in a restricted environment. The current allowed set is a-z A-Z 0-9 .,_-+@ This also adds a test for SSH_PUBKEYINFO, by default it only runs under github actions (or "act -j build").
author Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
date Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:17:23 +0800
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Tech Note 0005
Minimizing Code Space
Tom St Denis

Introduction
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Tweaking...

You can disable whole classes of algorithms on the command line with the LTC_NO_* defines.  From there you can manually turn on what you want to enable.  

The following build with GCC 3.4.4 on an AMD64 box gets you AES, CTR mode, SHA-256, HMAC, Yarrow, full RSA PKCS #1, PKCS #5 and ASN.1 DER in 
roughly 40KB of code (49KB on the ARMv4) (both excluding the math library).

CFLAGS="-DLTC_NO_CIPHERS -DLTC_NO_HASHES -DLTC_NO_PRNGS -DLTC_NO_MACS -DLTC_NO_MODES -DLTC_NO_PK -DLTC_RIJNDAEL -DLTC_CTR_MODE -DSHA256 \
-DLTC_HMAC -DYARROW -DMRSA -DMPI -DTFM_DESC -DARGTYPE=3 -Os -DLTC_SMALL_CODE -fomit-frame-pointer" make IGNORE_SPEED=1

Obviously this won't get you performance but if you need to pack a crypto lib in a device with limited means it's more than enough...

Neato eh?