>What is the purpose of this special padding format? Looking at the
>rsa a source it looks like an evil hack anyway.

The 0x03 bytes are used to signal that the SSL v3 is supported.

It might be useful, however, to implement the SSL padding as an option
to the PKCS1 padding function rather than a separate funciton.
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