Passive Attack Hear it!

Passive Attack Hacker Definition
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.