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> Injecting random data into any protocol will break it.

It shouldn't, unless you're bypassing the actual protocol serialization layer (or hitting a bug in the implementation). Which is what's the case here. Protocol design can't address the case of users just writing out some bytes and declaring it's a valid protocol message.




Sure but I’m not replying to the thread.

I’m replying to a post where someone said most protocols have in-band signaling and therefore this problem is unavoidable.




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