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Review `Cask.IsCaskBytes` and its callers carefully to ensure all useful checks are made

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
security

Research direction

Start by locating Cask.IsCaskBytes and every caller in the C# reference API, then review the existing tests. Compare the checks performed at the method and caller levels. Done means useful checks are covered without duplicating checks, with the existing test suite still passing.

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Description

And that, where possible, duplicative checks do not occur.

Dominant language
C#
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6
Forks
6
Avg merge
8h 21m
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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