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MITM attacks

One of the possible attacks that we would want to protect our model against is MITM attacks. A MITM attack occurs when an intruder tries to eavesdrop on a supposedly private communication to deploy a trained machine learning model.

Let's try to understand MITM attacks sequentially using an example scenario.

Let's assume that Bob and Alice want to exchange messages using PKI:

1. Bob is using {Pr_Bob, Pu_Bob} and Alice is using {Pr_Alice, Pu_Alice}. Bob has created a message, M_Bob, and Alice has created a message, M_Alice. They want to exchange these messages with each other in a secure way.

2. Initially, they need to exchange their public keys to establish a secure connection with each other. This means that Bob uses Pu_Alice to encrypt ...