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This was an attack by a partial active adversary.

Global = can view all network traffic. Partial = can view some portion of network traffic, but not all.

Active = willing/able to modify data as it transits the network. Passive = unable/unwilling to modify data as it transits the network.

The gold standard here would be breaking a specific user's anonymity without modifying the data, i.e. a passive attack by a partial adversary. The smaller the percentage of overall traffic that the system needs to observe, the better.




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