Aye, this is the 'Cryptograph Doom Principle'[0]. To very lossily summarize: always authenticate before looking at the message. Its a handy rule of thumb when

Aye, this is the 'Cryptograph Doom Principle'[0]. To very lossily summarize: always authenticate before looking at the message. Its a handy rule of thumb when you're making choices like how to validate a message. https://moxie.org/2011/12/13/the-cryptographic-doom-principle.html#:~:text=The%20Cryptographic%20Doom%20Principle,-Dec%2013%2C%202011&text=When%20it%20comes%20to%20designing,give%20you%20two%20popular%20examples https://moxie.org/2011/12/13/the-cryptographic-doom-principl....