Last year, Microsoft announced end-of-support for the RC4 stream cipher in 2016 for its Edge browser, as well as Internet Explorer 11. Earlier this year, the company reiterated that it would soon ...

Microsoft patched serious vulnerabilities Tuesday in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office, but also urged customers to stop using the aging RC4 cipher and SHA-1 hashing function in their systems and ...

A Microsoft update that will disable the compromised RC4 stream cipher on Windows systems was released on Tuesday. The update is described in Security Advisory 2868725, but it seems to have gone ...

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The decision to remove RC4 from IE, Edge, Chrome, and Firefox is final nail in the coffin for the vulnerable cryptographic algorithm After years of security experts demanding the RC4 stream cipher be ...

The RC4 and SHA-1 algorithms have taken a lot of hits in recent years, with new attacks popping up on a regular basis. Many security experts and cryptographers have been recommending that vendors ...

An encryption method that works with continuous streams of input rather than fixed blocks. Bytes of plaintext go into the stream cipher, and bytes of encrypted text come out the other end. RC4 is an ...

When used properly, cryptography will impede even the most capable of attackers. One of the keys to using it properly is to implement and even to require the use of the latest crypto standards. On ...

Google Apps customers who still rely on SSLv3 or RC4 need to update to TLS or face the prospect of no longer being able to send out mail Mark your calendars: Google will disable support for the RC4 ...

A Microsoft update that will disable the compromised RC4 stream cipher on Windows systems was released on Tuesday. The update is described in Security Advisory 2868725, but it seems to have gone ...