SCRUTINICE fixes

[smittals2]

Issues:

Description of changes:

• Removal of some dead code
• Casting work arounds

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Testing:

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 60.00000% with 18 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 78.91%. Comparing base (c826c21) to head (2d0caf7).
Report is 6 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
crypto/bio/bio.c	62.50%	12 Missing ⚠️
crypto/bn_extra/convert.c	50.00%	3 Missing ⚠️
crypto/bio/hexdump.c	0.00%	2 Missing ⚠️
crypto/fipsmodule/modes/cbc.c	0.00%	1 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##             main    #2103      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   78.76%   78.91%   +0.15%     
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  Files         598      610      +12     
  Lines      103656   105133    +1477     
  Branches    14720    14910     +190     
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+ Hits        81641    82969    +1328     
- Misses      21363    21510     +147     
- Partials      652      654       +2     

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