Active Impersonation Attack (Dictionary Entry)

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Cryptography, IAM, Information Security

Term

Active Impersonation Attack

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Active Impersonation Attack: after a pair of public and secret keys is generated, the adversary can choose to engage, acting as a server, in sequential executions of the identification scheme with P until it decides to make an impersonation attempt; at this point, the adversary tries to make V accept without knowing the secret key.

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