FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -A man in the middle (MITM) attack is a general term for when a perpetrator positions himself in a conversation between a user and an application-either to eavesdrop or to impersonate one of the parties, making it appear as if a normal exchange of information is underway.

Detailed explanation-2: -But they are completely different. Man-in-the-middle attacks are an active attack on a cryptographic protocol. In this case, attackers can intercept, relay, and even alter messages. A meet-in-the-middle attack involves a time-space trade-off to drastically reduce the effort to perform a brute-force attack.

Detailed explanation-3: -Man-in-the-middle attacks: Are a type of session hijacking. Involve attackers inserting themselves as relays or proxies in an ongoing, legitimate conversation or data transfer. Exploit the real-time nature of conversations and data transfers to go undetected.

Detailed explanation-4: -One example of a MITM attack is active eavesdropping, in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them to make them believe they are talking directly to each other over a private connection, when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker.