>You're talking to an HN user with a hobbyhorse about authenticated encryption being, at least sometimes, a bad thing... This is misleading as stated. >they r

>You're talking to an HN user with a hobbyhorse about authenticated encryption being, at least sometimes, a bad thing... This is misleading as stated. >they reached this opinion after being pressed on the weaknesses of PGP's authenticator. This is just confusing to me. At any rate, the OpenPGP standard has a robust authenticated encryption construct in the form of the MDC (modification detection code) combined with OpenPGP's improved version of CFB (cipher feed back). Not that that has anything to do with the subject at hand. We are talking about Matrix.