Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Fri, 21 September 2018 19:19 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Evan Hunt <each@isc.org>
Cc: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:46:22PM +0000, Evan Hunt wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 09:10:51PM +0200, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> > The up-to-date term of art is “middleperson attack”
> 
> Perhaps "on-path attack".

On-path is not good enough.  An active attacker might not be on-path so
much as redirect the path so that they are on it.

Mallory-in-the-middle attack is much better.

Nico
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