+// ToDo: define a meaningful maximum size for auth_table. The bigger this is, the lower will be the available memory for traces.
+// Historically it used to be FREE_BUFFER_SIZE, which was 2744.
+#define AUTH_TABLE_LENGTH 2744
+static byte_t* auth_table;
+static size_t auth_table_pos = 0;
+static size_t auth_table_len = AUTH_TABLE_LENGTH;