Mallory-in-the-middle attacks (Re: SV: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs)

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:09:06PM +0000, Anne-Marie Eklund-Löwinder wrote:
> Some time ago we had a standardisation committee in Sweden, running a
> project defining the terminology in Swedish for the information
> security area. They came up with Janus-attack rather than man in the
> middle-attack (the latter sounds weird in Swedish).

But it's always *Mallory* who gets in the middle, so I'd call it a
Mallory-in-the-middle attack, which has the very nice property of
abbreviating to MITM, thus minimizing the change to that term of art.

Nico
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