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Often, it's just sporadic bugs in the big integer implementation, for example:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13515 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13907

Peter Gutmann mentions in the cryptlib documentation that the extra check makes RSA signatures 10% slower, so I assume it's tempting to patch it out (or not add it in the first place).




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