Passive Attack

Passive Attack definition - hacker
On a cryptographic system. It is a method that starts with some information about plaintexts and their corresponding ciphertexts (under some unknown key) and then determines more information about the plaintexts.

See Also: Attack; Ciphertext; Passive Countermeasures; Plaintext.

Electronic Frontier Foundation. Passive Attack. [Online, 2004.] Electronic Frontier Foundation Website. http://gnupg.unixsecurity.com.br.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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