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Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237.

exploiting compromised certificates requires an active adversary-in-the-middle attack, meaning the attacker must act as a proxy between two TLS parties and receive encrypted traffic, decrypt it, reencrypt it, and send it to the other party. Such capabilities, in some cases, are usually limited to only the most well-resourced attackers. People with control of a local network—at a coffee shop, university, or other organization—face much less of a challenge.

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

Xkcd 221: int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random. }

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[–] magnue@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Adversary-in-the-middle = man-in-the-middle?

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

perp-in-the-path

[–] lemdeggity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yes, it's the same as mitm. I get that it's to avoid gendering the term but it doesn't really roll off the tongue or preserve the existing abbreviation. I've heard the alternatives: machine in the middle, mallory in the middle or, my favourite, Malcolm in the middle.

[–] yessikg@fedia.io 2 points 19 hours ago

Monster in the middle is my fave

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Less syllables is always gonna win, especially when it comes with alliteration

[–] redballooon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just like main replaced master in a heartbeat.

[–] BillionaireStew@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ticketmaster remains a notable holdout in that respect.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Menace in the middle

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Molestor in the middle

[–] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

Only in some obsolete or deprecated contexts.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

First time I've come across the phrase but it sounds like the same thing. It's gender neutral though I guess. Maybe that's it?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's commonly used and you often see the abbreviation AITM these days. You're right about the reason.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Good to know. Cheers.

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We had one compulsory course in English at university. The professor corrected a "man-in-the-middle" I had in a field-specific paper. She preferred "middle man". She did buy that it was an established term in cryptography, though.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 5 points 1 day ago

It's a term for the attack, yes but not for the attacker