Downgrade attack

id: downgrade-attack-177-15694023
title: Downgrade attack
text: 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 in favor of an older, lower-quality mode of operation that is typically provided for backward compatibility with older systems. An example of such a flaw was found in OpenSSL that allowed the attacker to negotiate the use of a lower version of TLS between the client and server. T
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description: Cryptographic attack that forces the use of weaker or no encryption
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downgrade_attack
date created: 2015-04-13T12:41:22Z
date modified: 2024-09-04T08:49:49Z
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