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NAK attack

In communications security systems, a security penetration technique that makes use of the negative-acknowledge transmission-control character and capitalizes on a potential weakness in a system that handles asynchronous transmission interruption in such a manner that the system is in an unprotected state against unauthorized access during certain periods. [From Weik '89]

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