Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

Microsoft is moving to disable RC4, an encryption cipher embedded in Windows authentication for more than two decades. The ...

米MicrosoftとGoogle、Mozillaは9月1日、それぞれのWebブラウザでHTTPSなどの暗号化通信に使われている暗号アルゴリズム「RC4」のサポートを、2016年初めに打ち切ると表明した。 Microsoftによると、RC4は1987年に登場したストリーム暗号で、Webブラウザやオンライン ...

RC4 encryption has been cracked for over a decade. Now Microsoft is slowly sweeping the last remnants, such as in Kerberos, ...

Microsoft recently confirmed that it is finally deprecating RC4, the encryption method used by the Kerberos authentication protocol for the past three decades. Developed by mathematician ...

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.

Ancient cypher meets its end after years of hacks and warnings Software King of the World, Microsoft, is pulling the plug on ...

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. Google, Microsoft and Mozilla today announced they’ve settled on a ...

HTTPSなどの暗号化通信に使われている暗号アルゴリズム「RC4」の弱点を突いて、旧来の手法よりも短い時間で暗号化されたユーザーのcookieを解読できてしまう方法が見つかったという。ベルギー・ルーベン大学の2人のセキュリティ研究者Mathy Vanhoef氏とFrank ...