Middle man

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Middle man or middleman may mean:

  • An employee - typically a salesperson - who acts on behalf of a company when dealing with customers
  • middle_man (AIM plugin), an AOL Instant Messenger plugin created by Krunch Software
  • Middleman node, a node in anonymity networks such as Tor or Mixmaster that only forwards messages to other anonymizing nodes and never lets messages exit the network
  • Man-in-the-middle attack, a type of attack in cryptography