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[ext/openssl] Object equality for objects based on ASN.1 structures

Added by MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet) over 12 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

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[ruby-core:38541]

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Equality behaviour is not overridden by any of the classes that base on ASN.1 structures. This leads to
counterintuitive things such as

require 'openssl'
key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new 256

puts [key].include?(key) # => true

key2 = OpenSSL::PKey.read key.to_pem

puts key == key2 # => false
puts [key].include?(key2) # => false

That's why I'd like to suggest to determine equality for these objects on the encoding level, i.e.
two such objects are equal iff obj1.to_der == obj2.to_der.

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