Bencode formats about lokinet HOT 8 CLOSED

ideally we need to implement seek/discard of entities instead of just hard failing if they are not the expected format.

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idea, have llarp::IBEncodeMessage have a member for unrecondised values

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specifically a std::unordered_map<std::string, llarp_buffer_t> where key is the key name and value is a buffer containing its value.

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or.... potentially pass into llarp::IBEncodeMessage::BDecode a std::unordered_map<std::string, llarp_buffer_t> & to place in unknown fields.

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why would we need to store fields we don't know or can't do anything with in memory? Seems just like a waste of memory.

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it's not, it's a llarp_buffer_t which is a pointer to a region of memory, it doesn't copy it.

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oh, right, it's for older version to not die when parsing newer messages

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closing because no one cares any more

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