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I understand that AEAD is sick because it makes you get your HMAC shit right. I'm all about it.
But... why... associated data? Who would associate data. When would associated data.
Just... fucking encrypt it????
I'm not convinced.
Wikipedia's like
"Uh.. a fucking TCP header could be AD or some shit??? 'cause like... routers need to see it?? But you want to be able to verify that nobody fucked with it???"