Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o...
by s_q_b on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @06:35PM
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This was an attack by a partial active adversary.
Global = can view all network traffic.
Partial = can view some portion of network traffic, but not all.
Active = willing/able to modify data as it transits the network.
Passive = unable/unwilling to modify data as it transits the network.
The gold standard here would be breaking a specific user's anonymity without modifying the data, i.e. a passive attack by a partial adversary. The smaller the percentage of overall traffic that the system needs to observe, the better.
Global = can view all network traffic. Partial = can view some portion of network traffic, but not all.
Active = willing/able to modify data as it transits the network. Passive = unable/unwilling to modify data as it transits the network.
The gold standard here would be breaking a specific user's anonymity without modifying the data, i.e. a passive attack by a partial adversary. The smaller the percentage of overall traffic that the system needs to observe, the better.