Do not clone empty arrays in CloneByteArray #93231
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CloneByteArrayis used heavily in S.S.Cryptography to create defensive copies of byte arrays. This is to avoid exposing any kind of mutability to callers.Clonehowever appears to create a newbyte[]for empty byte arrays every time. Empty arrays are not uncommon. It could be for a CNG property, it could be for key parameters, or otherAsnEncodedData.If its empty, just return the identity to save the allocation.