Protocol Vulnerabilities - Ground Rules
Strong attacker assumption: an attacker can intercept and forge messages.
- Possibilities: sniffers, and intrusions in firewalls or routers
- Synonyms: attacker, intruder, spy, penetrator, enemy
Strong encryption assumption: an attacker cannot decrypt any message without the key.
- There are other attacks, but that’s a different topic.
Overview: Clark-Jacob survey [CJ97]