Remove unrelated string decoding change

Author: Dominikus Gierlach

pkcs11/types.py

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 from binascii import hexlify
 from functools import cached_property
 
-import chardet
-
 from pkcs11 import CancelStrategy
 from pkcs11.constants import (
     Attribute,
@@ -43,17 +41,8 @@ def __hash__(self):
 
 
 def _CK_UTF8CHAR_to_str(data):
-    """Convert _CK_UTF8CHAR_to_str to string using chardet for encoding detection."""
-    cleaned_data = data.rstrip(b"\0")
-
-    detected_encoding = chardet.detect(cleaned_data)
-    encoding = detected_encoding["encoding"] or "utf-8"
-
-    try:
-        return cleaned_data.decode(encoding).rstrip()
-    except UnicodeDecodeError:
-        # If decoding fails, try utf-8 with default error replacement character as a last resort
-        return cleaned_data.decode("utf-8", errors="replace").rstrip()
+    """Convert CK_UTF8CHAR to string."""
+    return data.rstrip(b"\0").decode("utf-8").rstrip()
 
 
 def _CK_VERSION_to_tuple(data):

pyproject.toml

@@ -23,10 +23,7 @@ classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
     "Topic :: Security :: Cryptography",
 ]
-dependencies = [
-    "asn1crypto>=1.5.1",
-    "chardet>=5.2.0",
-]
+dependencies = ["asn1crypto>=1.5.1"]
 license = "MIT"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dynamic = ["version"]
@@ -122,4 +119,4 @@ dev = [
     { include-group = "release" },
 ]
 
-[tool.setuptools_scm]
+[tool.setuptools_scm]