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traffic padding

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-004381

Countermeasure that generates spurious data in transmission media to make traffic analysis or decryption more difficult. Note: May be used to disguise the amount of real data units being sent.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-004381
FieldCybersecurity
ReferencesCNSSI 4009-2022; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-004381",
  "term": "traffic padding",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "Countermeasure that generates spurious data in transmission media to make traffic analysis or decryption more difficult. Note: May be used to disguise the amount of real data units being sent.",
  "references": [
    "CNSSI 4009-2022",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/traffic-padding/"
}

Record 4,381 of 4,693 in Cybersecurity terminology (MLC-0102). Request the full dataset.