Glossary of Data Communications Terms

Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.

Term: traffic analysis
Definition: when communication traffic is in cipher form and cannot be understood it may still be possible to get useful information by detecting who is sending messages to whom and in what quantity. This is traffic analysis.

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