passive attack

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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An attack against an authentication protocol where the Attacker intercepts data traveling along the network between the Claimant and Verifier, but does not alter the data (i.e., eavesdropping).

polysemousMWE

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: passive attacks
possessive: passive attack's
pluralpossessive: passive attacks'

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