Continuing with modification #5 from the claim chart.

Cenzic 232 Patent Claim 10: A method of testing a target on a network by fault injection, the method comprising: defining a transaction baseline; and  modifying an input field in the transaction baseline to obtain a modified transaction with malformed value, wherein modifying the input field comprises at least one of the following:
5) providing an unbalanced pair in the transaction baseline,

This item is not specified in the original Provisional Patent filing, which sets its date to at least February 28th 2002

Relevant Prior Art:

4. “boguspassword' OR NOT Password='otherboguspassword”

The string above is an example of an alternative character encoding to encode a transaction field with a character that is equal in nature and different in representation. This string can be found  in “Hackproofing Your Network” (Book published in 2000 of which Greg Hoglund is one of the co-Authors) - Chapter 7  discusses this in length and includes the unbalanced pair example.

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