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  1. Downgrade attack, Downgrade attack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Downgrade-attack: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Downgrade attack)

noun:  A downgrade attack, also called a bidding-down attack, or version rollback attack, is a form of cryptographic attack on a computer system or communications protocol that makes it abandon a high-quality mode of operation (e.g. an encrypted connection) in favor of an older, lower-quality mode of operation (e.g. cleartext) that is typically provided for backward compatibility with older systems.


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