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Document that a matching Dictionary_ID does not verify dictionary contents, and recommend including the optional Content_Checksum for dictionary-compressed frames. Clarify that checksums are partial integrity checks: decoders may ignore them, and they do not authenticate a dictionary.

Related to #4845. This documents a mitigation and does not change format behavior.

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  • I searched open pull requests and issues; this problem is not already being addressed.
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  • Bug fix reproducer/test: not applicable (documentation change).
  • Performance numbers: not applicable (documentation change).

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AI assistant: reviewed the issue and drafted the documentation wording. I checked the technical claims against the format documentation and CLI defaults, reviewed the generated man-page diff, and ran git diff --check plus strict UTF-8 decoding.

@meta-cla meta-cla Bot added the CLA Signed label Oct 16, 2026

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