diff --git a/pkg/data/decode.go b/pkg/data/decode.go
index d98bf5b..9b58055 100644
--- a/pkg/data/decode.go
+++ b/pkg/data/decode.go
@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ const ()
 
 // DecodeKey specifically only decodes user data keys stored as bytes into its respective session ID and data type
 // TODO: Replace return data type with imported data types from the common package once lib-gdbm dependency is removed.
+// Note: 0x2e was added herehttps://holbrook.no/src/go-vise/file/db/db.go.html#l147, so we discard the last 3 bytes
 func DecodeKey(key []byte) (uint16, string) {
 	if key[0] != keyPrefix {
 		return 0, ""
 	}
 
-	return binary.BigEndian.Uint16(key[len(key)-2:]), string(key[1 : len(key)-2])
+	return binary.BigEndian.Uint16(key[len(key)-2:]), string(key[1 : len(key)-3])
 }
 
 // DecodeValue returns the utf-8 string representation of the value stored in the storage backend