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Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 20 September 2018 19:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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> On 20. Sep 2018, at 21:46, Evan Hunt <each@isc.org> wrote:
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> 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”.

No, that includes attacks where you are on path just to listen in.
(“spy-in-the-middle attack” has the same problem.)

That’s why I like Janus attack — middleperson attacks are about giving one face to one end and a different face to the other end.  Unfortunately, there is this guy Mark Janus…

Middleperson attack it is.  I’m amazed that Wikipedia doesn’t know that...

Grüße, Carsten

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