[Cryptography] Langsec & authentication

[Judson Lester]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Stephan Neuhaus
<stephan.neuhaus at tik.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Once you have ambiguous blobs of data, one of which means "re-order
> coffee" and the other meaning "nuke North Korea", you've lost the game.
>  But surely that's not the fault of the authentication subsystem.

So, in that case you need your protocol language that describes
messages unambiguously - so that there's only one blob that
legitimately means "nuke North Korea."