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As described in ruby/openssl#63 without this check, only a single byte needs to be supplied to make the authentication pass. This means that an attacker needs at most 256 attempts in order to forge a valid authentication tag.
The JWE spec example prescribes 128 bits (16 bytes) for the tag: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7516#section-3.3