Colin Percival personal blog
Encrypt-then-MAC
First things first: Why use a composition of encryption and MAC instead of a single primitive which achieves both? Because people are very good at writing bad code. In my experience on the FreeBSD security team, writing dozens of security advisories, there are three types of code which are especially prone to have…
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Security & PrivacyCrypto & Blockchain2009
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2009 | Encrypt-then-MAC by cperciva | 65 | 49 |
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