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Traffic Padding

nounid 4466·updated May 9, 2026
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Generation of mock communications or data units to disguise the amount of real data units being sent.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Control85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Traffic Paddings
possessive
Traffic Padding's
pluralpossessive
Traffic Paddings'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
Generation of mock communications or data units to disguise the amount of real data units being sent.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Generation of mock communications or data units to disguise the amount of real data units being sent.

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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