CRIME
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See also: crime
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Short for compression ratio info-leak made easy, chosen to spell the word crime.
Proper noun[edit]
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.