+
+ /*
+ * Padding on OpenSSH keys is deterministic. The number of
+ * padding bytes is always more than zero, and always at most
+ * the cipher block length. The value of each padding byte is
+ * equal to the number of padding bytes. So a plaintext that's
+ * an exact multiple of the block size will be padded with 08
+ * 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 (assuming a 64-bit block cipher); a
+ * plaintext one byte less than a multiple of the block size
+ * will be padded with just 01.
+ *
+ * This enables the OpenSSL key decryption function to strip
+ * off the padding algorithmically and return the unpadded
+ * plaintext to the next layer: it looks at the final byte, and
+ * then expects to find that many bytes at the end of the data
+ * with the same value. Those are all removed and the rest is
+ * returned.
+ */
+ assert(pos == len);