M. Bellare; P. Rogaway; D. Wagner. „A Conventional Authenticated-Encryption Mode”(PDF). NIST. Приступљено 12. 3. 2013. „people had been doing rather poorly when they tried to glue together a traditional (privacy-only) encryption scheme and a message authentication code (MAC)”
T. Kohno; J. Viega & D. Whiting. „The CWC Authenticated Encryption (Associated Data) Mode”(PDF). NIST. Приступљено 12. 3. 2013. „it is very easy to accidentally combine secure encryption schemes with secure MACs and still get insecure authenticated encryption schemes”
