Man in the middle

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NIST is striving to use more inclusive language. Although present in current NIST publications, this potentially biased term will no longer be used in NIST's new or revised cybersecurity and privacy publications. The deprecated term will be removed from this online glossary once it's no longer defined in a NIST publication.

Alternative language that NIST is using includes:

machine-in-the-middle (MITM); on-path attacker

Abbreviations / Acronyms / Synonyms:

MitM

NIST SP 800-187

MITM

NIST SP 800-209

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