@misc{rfc8546, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 8546, howpublished = {RFC 8546}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC8546}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8546}, author = {Brian Trammell and Mirja Kühlewind}, title = {{The Wire Image of a Network Protocol}}, pagetotal = 10, year = 2019, month = apr, abstract = {This document defines the wire image, an abstraction of the information available to an on-path non-participant in a networking protocol. This abstraction is intended to shed light on the implications that increased encryption has for network functions that use the wire image.}, }