Folklore - Attack Terms

• Replay: record and later re-introduce a message or part

• Masquerading: pretending to be another party

  • Forge source address

• Man-in-the-middle: pass messages through to another session A <-> X <-> B

• Oracle: take advantage of unintended encryption and decryption “services” built into the protocol

• Type confusion: substitution of a different type of message field (e.g., key vs. nonce)

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