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To: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
From: Gianluca Gabrielli <tuxmealux@protonmail.com>
Subject: Re: TCP Wireguard with socat
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Thanks Matthias, now I see your point.

I'm wondering why we should prepend a length to each datagram. On the datag=
ram's header the payload length is already present, should not be enough to=
 reconstruct the original datagram after the stream has been unwrapped?

Cheers,
Gianluca