RFC 7624: Confidentiality in the Face of Pervasive Surveillance: A Threat Model and Problem Statement
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Since the initial revelations of pervasive surveillance in 2013, several classes of attacks on Internet communications have been discovered. In this document, we develop a threat model that describes these attacks on Internet confidentiality. We assume an attacker that is interested in undetected, indiscriminate eavesdropping. The threat model is based on published, verified attacks.
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- Document ID
- RFC7624
- Published
- August 2015
- Authors
- R. Barnes; B. Schneier; C. Jennings; T. Hardie; B. Trammell; C. Huitema; D. Borkmann
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IAB
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 24
- Also known as
- —
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