openssh unix dev - Sep 2019 - Why remove trailing padding from base64 encoded fingerprint?

>From sshkey.c (line 925):
        /* Trim padding characters from end */
        ret[strcspn(ret, "=")] = '\0';
        return ret;

Why remove the trailing padding from the Base64 encoded key fingerprint?  I
recognize that it's easy enough to re-pad the string, but I'm just
curious
why it's being removed in the first place.

Thanks,
Mark

On Wed, 11 Sep 2019, Mark Leonard wrote:
> From sshkey.c (line 925):
> 
>         /* Trim padding characters from end */
>         ret[strcspn(ret, "=")] = '\0';
>         return ret;
> 
> Why remove the trailing padding from the Base64 encoded key fingerprint?  I
> recognize that it's easy enough to re-pad the string, but I'm just
curious
> why it's being removed in the first place.
Just to make the result more human readable.

-d