CRIME

See also: crime

English

Etymology

Short for compression ratio info-leak made easy, chosen to spell the word crime.

Proper noun

CRIME

(computing) A particular security exploit against secret Web cookies over connections using the HTTPS and SPDY protocols that also use data compression. It relies on observing the change in size of the compressed ciphertext for various inputs.

Anagrams

REMIC, merci

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