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> This may expose a padding oracle, with all the nice attacks those things allow, depending on details of the application.

Please describe the padding oracle attack against AES-CTR you're envisioning.

> In short: I accept the point of your linked post, and I agree with it. But I reject the claim that a functionality mismatch is what makes integrated AEAD better than a constructed EtM.

Okay, I don't think we disagree then. We're just debating semantics at this point. :)



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