Confusion

confusion, n.

1 : state of being confused mentally : lack of certainty, orderly thought, or power to distinguish, choose, or act decisively;

2 : an act of mistaking one thing for another, of failing to note distinctions, and of falsely identifying;

3 : a situation or condition marked by lack of order, system, arrangement : an unclear welter or muddle : an utter disorder

4 : a technique for thwarting network eavesdropping : insertion of uncertainty, indistinguishability in transcripts

Papers

Eric Cronin, Micah Sherr, and Matt Blaze, On the Reliability of Current Generation Network Eavesdropping Tools, Second Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, January 29–31 2005. (slides)
Micah Sherr, Eric Cronin, Sandy Clark, and Matt Blaze, “Signaling Vulnerabilities in Wiretapping Systems,” IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 3, no. 6, November/December 2005, pp. 13–25. (html|pdf)
Eric Cronin, Micah Sherr, and Matt Blaze, The Eavesdropper�s Dilemma, tech. report MS-CIS-05–24, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2005.
Eric Cronin, Micah Sherr, and Matt Blaze, Listen too closely and you may be confused. In Proc. of the Thirteenth International Workshop on Security Protocols, Apr 2005.