[Cryptography] Encryption opinion

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Kristian Gj?steen wrote:

> That said, I would say that MITM and MITB are informal terms used to 
> describe classes of attacks. Quarrelling about what is and is not a MITM 
> is sometimes fun and almost never productive.

But we really need to define the terminology, before it gets defined for 
us.  Look at the fine word "decimate" for instance, or the idiotic phrase 
"we will be landing momentarily" and other mis-usages.

Muddy the crypto waters and, well, the waters will be muddied thereafter.

-- Dave