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Re: Rollback attack

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony Cuykens)
Thu Mar 13 08:04:14 1997

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:36:39 +0100
From: Anthony Cuykens <acuykens@ulb.ac.be>
Reply-To: acuykens@ulb.ac.be
To: Fiorini Simone <fiorinis@dsdata.it>
Cc: "'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

        Sorry but could anybody tell me what is a 'rollback attack' ?

Fiorini Simone wrote:

  I've heard about something like Rollback attack against NT based WWW

  servers.

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