The Cryptographic Doom Principle (if you have to perform any cryptographic operation before verifying the MAC on a message you’ve received, it will somehow inev

The Cryptographic Doom Principle (if you have to perform any cryptographic operation before verifying the MAC on a message you’ve received, it will somehow inevitably lead to doom)[1] is a sort of anti-Postel's Law. [1] https://moxie.org/2011/12/13/the-cryptographic-doom-principle.html https://moxie.org/2011/12/13/the-cryptographic-doom-principl...