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Downgrade-attack Hacker Definition
A downgrade-attack is a sophisticated crack attack that tries to downgrade an encrypted connection to something that can be more easily exploited, such as clear-text (in cryptography, this term is used for messages that have not been encrypted).

See Also: Cracking; Cryptography or “Crypto”; Encryption or Encipher; Exploit.

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