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> A scenario where the attacker controls the plaintext being sent but doesn't know what the plaintext is seems quite unlikely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch
by xtajv 1y ago
> A scenario where the attacker controls the plaintext being sent but doesn't know what the plaintext is seems quite unlikely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chosen-plaintext_attack#In_practice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chosen-plaintext_attack#In_pra... comes to mind.
(Not sure what attack scenarios OP had in mind -- iust sharing the usual CPA example)
- jsnell 1y agoThe suggested attack was the attacker writing an infinite stream of EHLOs on a connection. What's the scenario where an attacker has full control of the SMTP control framing, but doesn't have attack to the payloads?