Confidentiality in the Face of Pervasive Surveillance: A Threat Model and Problem Statement
Richard Barnes, Bruce Schneier, Cullen Jennings, Thomas Hardie, Brian Trammell, Christian Huitema, Daniel Borkmann · 2015
Since the initial revelations of pervasive surveillance in 2013, several classes of attacks on Internet communications have been discovered. In this document, we develop a threat model that describes these attacks on Internet confidentiality. We assume an attacker that is interested in undetected, indiscriminate eavesdropping. The threat model is based on published, verified attacks.