setXorKey

Sets the pending encryption key for this client. Client sends this when it receives corrupt data for a group, in which case it will close the old socket first, allowing for a new one to be opened. In that new one, the encryption key is first sent out, followed by any requests it was previously waiting on, as those get transferred from the "awaiting response" over to the "awaiting to be requested" map.

A potential theory for why this exist is network filters for HTTP traffic. The client can listen to port 443 which is commonly used for HTTP traffic, and some groups in the cache are not compressed at all. If said groups contain normal text that would fail any network filters, such as those set by schools, this could be a way to bypass these filters by re-requesting the data with it re-encrypted, meaning it won't get caught in the filters again. Besides compression, it is possible by pure chance that a sequence of bytes doesn't pass the filters, too.

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