Active attack/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Cryptanalysis [r]: The sub-field of cryptology which deals with breaking into existing codes and ciphers. ^[e]
• Active attack [r]: An attack on a communications system in which the attacker creates, alters, replaces, re-routes or blocks messages; this contrasts with a passive attack in which he only reads them. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Man-in-the-middle attack [r]: An attack on a communications system in which the attacker deceives the communicating parties so they both talk to him while believing they are talking to each other. ^[e]
• Rewrite attack [r]: An attack on a communication system in which the attacker replaces a legitimate message with his own. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Passive attack [r]: An attack on a communications system in which the attacker reads messages he is not supposed to but does not alter them. ^[e]
• Cryptographic authentication [r]: Cryptographic techniques for authenticating both senders and messages; the most common are digital signatures and hashed message authentication codes. ^[e]