mallet
noun
- soft-headed hammer
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈmæleɪ/ / /ˈmælɪt/
name
Etymology: Cryptographic scenarios use archetypal characters with standard names chosen to remember their role: Mallet was derived from "malicious" and "man-in-the-middle attack", as well as the tool mallet.
- The malicious party in examples of threat scenarios. See Alice and Bob.
“Even if Alice and Bob's public keys are stored on a datavase, this attack will work. Mallet can intercept Alice's database inquiry, and substitute his own public key for Alice's. He can do the same to Bob.”
noun
Etymology: Derived from the name of the inventor, Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet.
- A type of articulated locomotive having two powered trucks, with the rear truck being rigidly attached to the main body and boiler of the locomotive, while the front powered truck is attached to the rear by a hinge, so that it may swing from side to side, and with the front end of the boiler resting upon a sliding bearing on the swinging front truck.
“Its 50 H-7 2-8-8-2's (30 of which found their way onto the Union Pacific roster in 1945) were simple mainly because a tunnel in the Alleghenies would not accommodate the low-pressure cylinders of any Mallet larger than a 2-6-6-2.”
“Primarily a coal-hauling road from the mines of the Appalachian coalfield over the mountains to the Atlantic coast, the Norfolk & Western had long maintained that nothing could equal its superbly efficient articulated Mallet locomotives for the haulage of immense weights over mountain grades, and it continued to build steam locomotives in its shops at Roanoke until 1953.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English malet, maylet, from Old French mallet, maillet (“a wooden hammer, mallet”), diminutive of mal, mail (“a hammer”), from Latin malleus (“a hammer, mall, mallet”).
- To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet.
“[…] and when a couple of insurgents ran in to make the capture she malleted them with her rifle.”