On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:09:06PM +0000, Anne-Marie Eklund-Löwinder wrote: > Some time ago we had a standardisation committee in Sweden, running a > project defining the terminology in Swedish for the information > security area. They came up with Janus-attack rather than man in the > middle-attack (the latter sounds weird in Swedish). But it's always *Mallory* who gets in the middle, so I'd call it a Mallory-in-the-middle attack, which has the very nice property of abbreviating to MITM, thus minimizing the change to that term of art. Nico --
