[saag] Re: On path Active Attackers, and Meddlers in the M iddle

On Jan 5, 2025, at 8:12 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I also agree that we should stop -- I've never liked the term because it is too vague, and indeed, people use it for both passive and active attacks.
> 
> The classic one is a double-impersonation, proxy attack. The attacker is, as you say, impersonating Alice to Bob and Bob to Alice, while modifying the traffic as needed. It's really hard to describe that pithily.

  The obvious solution is to describe that as the "ABBA" attack.  :)

  Alan DeKok.

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