sajolida:
>> sycamoreone:
>>> >> Dominik Pilatzki:
>>>> >>> For the terms; I would use "Man-in-the-Middle-Angriff" (it's the same in
>>>> >>> Wikipedia).
>>> >>
>>>> >>> Maybe we could use "Korrelationsangriff" for "confirmation attack"?
>>> >>
>>> >> The verbatim translation would be "Bestätigungsangriff", i.e. using some
>>> >> correlation to confirm an initial hypothesis
>
> If you are working on warning.mdwn I think that this part might need to
> be fixed in English in the first place. As one of you said, I think that
> the correct meaning is that "correlation attacks" are used to "confirm
> an hypothesis". And at least Wikipedia doesn't know about "confirmation
> attacks" as such.
The Tor design paper [1] uses the general term "confirmation attacks
("Passive attacks in section 7), but talks about e.g. "End-to-end size
correlation" for the specific attacks. So the term "Confirmation
attacks" isn't out of place here, and also better describes *what* the
attacker is trying to do (instead of *how* he is doing it).
Short: I prefer the "Confirmation attacks" version.
[1]
https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-design.pdf
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