Middle-End protocol hardening

- Secure framing / hot-path fix: enforced a single length + padding contract across the framing layer. Replaced legacy runtime `len % 4` recovery with strict validation to eliminate undefined behavior paths.

- ME RPC aligned with C reference contract: handshake now includes `flags + sender_pid + peer_pid`. Added negotiated CRC mode (CRC32 / CRC32C) and applied the negotiated mode consistently in read/write paths.

- Sequence fail-fast semantics: immediate connection termination on first sequence mismatch with dedicated counter increment.

- Keepalive reworked to RPC ping/pong: removed raw CBC keepalive frames. Introduced stale ping tracker with proper timeout accounting.

- Route/backpressure observability improvements: increased per-connection route queue to 4096. Added `RouteResult` with explicit failure reasons (NoConn, ChannelClosed, QueueFull) and per-reason counters.

- Direct-DC secure mode-gate relaxation: removed TLS/secure conflict in Direct-DC handshake path.

src/stream/frame_codec.rs

@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ use std::io::{self, Error, ErrorKind};
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use tokio_util::codec::{Decoder, Encoder};
 
-use crate::protocol::constants::{ProtoTag, secure_padding_len};
+use crate::protocol::constants::{
+    ProtoTag, is_valid_secure_payload_len, secure_padding_len, secure_payload_len_from_wire_len,
+};
 use crate::crypto::SecureRandom;
 use super::frame::{Frame, FrameMeta, FrameCodec as FrameCodecTrait};
 
@@ -274,13 +276,13 @@ fn decode_secure(src: &mut BytesMut, max_size: usize) -> io::Result<Option<Frame
         return Ok(None);
     }
     
-    // Calculate padding (indicated by length not divisible by 4)
-    let padding_len = len % 4;
-    let data_len = if padding_len != 0 {
-        len - padding_len
-    } else {
-        len
-    };
+    let data_len = secure_payload_len_from_wire_len(len).ok_or_else(|| {
+        Error::new(
+            ErrorKind::InvalidData,
+            format!("invalid secure frame length: {len}"),
+        )
+    })?;
+    let padding_len = len - data_len;
     
     meta.padding_len = padding_len as u8;
     
@@ -303,6 +305,13 @@ fn encode_secure(frame: &Frame, dst: &mut BytesMut, rng: &SecureRandom) -> io::R
         return Ok(());
     }
     
+    if !is_valid_secure_payload_len(data.len()) {
+        return Err(Error::new(
+            ErrorKind::InvalidData,
+            format!("secure payload must be 4-byte aligned, got {}", data.len()),
+        ));
+    }
+
     // Generate padding that keeps total length non-divisible by 4.
     let padding_len = secure_padding_len(data.len(), rng);
     

src/stream/frame_stream.rs

@@ -232,11 +232,13 @@ impl<R: AsyncRead + Unpin> SecureIntermediateFrameReader<R> {
         let mut data = vec![0u8; len];
         self.upstream.read_exact(&mut data).await?;
         
-        // Strip padding (not aligned to 4)
-        if len % 4 != 0 {
-            let actual_len = len - (len % 4);
-            data.truncate(actual_len);
-        }
+        let payload_len = secure_payload_len_from_wire_len(len).ok_or_else(|| {
+            Error::new(
+                ErrorKind::InvalidData,
+                format!("Invalid secure frame length: {len}"),
+            )
+        })?;
+        data.truncate(payload_len);
         
         Ok((Bytes::from(data), meta))
     }
@@ -267,6 +269,13 @@ impl<W: AsyncWrite + Unpin> SecureIntermediateFrameWriter<W> {
             return Ok(());
         }
         
+        if !is_valid_secure_payload_len(data.len()) {
+            return Err(Error::new(
+                ErrorKind::InvalidData,
+                format!("Secure payload must be 4-byte aligned, got {}", data.len()),
+            ));
+        }
+
         // Add padding so total length is never divisible by 4 (MTProto Secure)
         let padding_len = secure_padding_len(data.len(), &self.rng);
         let padding = self.rng.bytes(padding_len);
@@ -550,9 +559,7 @@ mod tests {
         writer.flush().await.unwrap();
         
         let (received, _meta) = reader.read_frame().await.unwrap();
-        // Received should have padding stripped to align to 4
-        let expected_len = (data.len() / 4) * 4;
-        assert_eq!(received.len(), expected_len);
+        assert_eq!(received.len(), data.len());
     }
     
     #[tokio::test]