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Re:S3QL: an S3 FS with encryption, de-dup, immutable trees a... by JoachimSchipper on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @12:54PM (#10153831)
That's not MAC-then-encrypt, that's "ECB mode is pretty okay if your message and a nonce fits in your block" plus "let's make an arbitrary-length block cipher". In any case, the result is AEAD, not MAC-then-encrypt.

(That said, AEZ is really interesting.)

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