On 9/17/13 at 4:18 PM, leich...@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter) wrote:
MAC'ing the actual data always seemed more "logical" to me, but
once you look at the actual situation, it no longer seems like
the right thing to do.
When I chose MAC then encrypt I was using the MAC to check the
crypto code. CRC would have worked too, but the MAC was free. (I
really don't trust my own code very much.)
Cheers - Bill
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