[ruby-core:70795] [Ruby trunk - Feature #5103] [ext/openssl] Object equality for objects based on ASN.1 structures

Issue #5103 has been updated by Zachary Scott.

Assignee changed from Martin Bosslet to openssl

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Feature #5103: [ext/openssl] Object equality for objects based on ASN.1 structures
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5103#change-54179

* Author: Martin Bosslet
* Status: Feedback
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: openssl
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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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