Downgrade-attack

Downgrade-attack definition - hacker
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.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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