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Using the MAC to verify if Cipher Only attack has succeeded
I confirm the intuition in the question: with a uniformly random plaintext and block ciphers (like AES or DES) in any of their common modes of operation for pure encryption (CTR, CBC, OFB, CFB, ECB) ...
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Using the MAC to verify if Cipher Only attack has succeeded
The question linked from @kelalaka is to answer the merit of Encrypt-then-MAC.
and I am not sure if Encrypt-then-MAC would allow me to verify whether my attack has succeeded.
That's easy. The ...
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