Indeed, further down the thread Werner Koch suggests the solution is deploying AEAD modes, but the bottleneck is other implementations picking it up. As an asi

Indeed, further down the thread Werner Koch suggests the solution is deploying AEAD modes, but the bottleneck is other implementations picking it up. As an aside, I'm surprised this got posted to cryptography@metzdowd, the S/N on that list is so low I'm surprised anyone still bothers to read it.