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  Introduction to FreeS/WAN
An attack in which the attacker does not merely eavesdrop (see passive attack) but takes action to change, delete, reroute, add, forge or divert data.
The protocol is secure against all passive attacks, but it is not at all resistant to active man-in-the-middle attacks.
A host which runs OE in its passive form only is known as an opportunistic responder.
www.freeswan.org /freeswan_trees/CURRENT-TREE/doc/glossary.html   (11547 words)

  
 [12.0] Frontiers In Cryptology
However, these protections are in the form of broad principles, not specific laws.
The US government's right to wiretapping has been well established, though certain legal safeguards are required.
The 1974 Federal Privacy Act restricted the US government to storing only "relevant and necessary" data on citizens, but this is obviously vague.
www.vectorsite.net /ttcode_12.html   (7885 words)

  
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VoIP providers already had to comply with legally-authorized wiretap orders; the FCC ruling means that all VoIP implementations would now have to pass federal wiretapping standards before they could be deployed.
VoIP companies are unlikely to pay for high-assurance development; they don't rely on the proper function of wiretapping software in their normal operations.
Instead it means that wiretapping will be accomplished at either the application layer (by the VoIP provider) or the link layer (by monitoring the target's network connection), rather than from functions embedded more pervasively across the network stack.
www.csl.sri.com /neumann/insiderisks05.html   (8744 words)

  
 Infospigot: The Chronicles: December 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
But he grew fast and seemed to sense that all he had to do to own the place was be there, Storm or no Storm.
I thought he was a little dense -- more than a little dense, sometimes -- but a friend pointed out once that as passive as he appeared, he always managed to be in position to get his own way.
But because of a brilliant dissent by Associate Justice Louis Brandeis that cut through the legalistic myopia of the court's majority in a 1928 wiretapping case, Olmstead became a fundamental declaration of a right to live free of "every unjustifiable intrusion by the government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed."
infospigot.typepad.com /infospigot_the_chronicles/2005/12/index.html   (9581 words)

  
 IEEE Cipher Book Announcements and Reviews
A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks, Review by Robert Bruen
Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics and Chip Design.
Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption.
www.ieee-security.org /Cipher/BookReviews.html   (2020 words)

  
 Fn-Fz
A source code distribution is available which has been successfully compiled on Linux Intel platforms.
A project to secure Internet traffic against passive wiretapping.
The concept is caled S/WAN or S/Wan or Swan for Secure Wide Area Networks, whence comes the FreeS/WAN name.
stommel.tamu.edu /~baum/linuxlist/linuxlist/node18.html   (10332 words)

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