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 ...

Google and Mozilla today announced they’ve settled on a timeframe to permanently deprecate the shaky RC4 encryption algorithm.

A fresh warning concerning the use of RC4 to support secure communication channels online has been issued after researchers were able to exploit the protocol to decrypt user data in mere hours ...

Microsoft has warned developers to stop using the RC4 and SHA-1 algorithms. The algorithms have been a source of attacks lately and many have suggested phasing them out, now Redmond has wade in ...

Not all TLS implementations use RC4 internally, but “Around 50% of all TLS traffic is currently protected using the RC4 algorithm,” says the team.

The NETENCRYPTALGORITHM= option specifies that the RC4 algorithm be used for encryption in the local host session. SAS/CONNECT Remote Host The following example illustrates the content of the ...

The RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4) algorithm was designed in 1987 by renowned cryptographer Ron Rivest and remained a trade secret until 1994, when it was leaked on the Internet.

Microsoft is ending support for RC4 encryption in its Edge and IE11 web browsers but users will experience little or no effects.