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.

IT之家 12 月 16 日消息，微软 Windows 身份验证团队负责人 Steve Syfuhs 于 12 月 11 日在 Bluesky 上宣布，微软正准备彻底废除已存在 25 年的过时加密算法 RC4。 IT之家注：RC4 全称为 Rivest Cipher 4，是一种诞生于 1987 年的老式流加密算法，曾广泛用于网络传输加密。

Microsoft has announced that it will end support for RC4 encryption in its Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 web browsers next month. On April 12, it will no longer provide support for the RC4 ...

Microsoft rolls out new Kerberos protections to block RC4 encryption, with enforcement mode becoming mandatory for domain controllers in 2026.

Microsoft has finally decided to discontinue the RC4 encryption method that has been supported by default in Windows for 26 years. By eliminating this old technology, which has been the target of ...

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Microsoft released optional security updates Tuesday for various versions of the .NET Framework that prevent the RC4 encryption algorithm from being used in TLS (Transport Layer Security) connections.

RC4’s long, messy reign over Windows authentication At the center of this shift is RC4, short for Rivest Cipher 4, a stream cipher that once powered much of the internet’s “secure” traffic and is now ...

Microsoft released optional security updates Tuesday for various versions of the .NET Framework that prevent the RC4 encryption algorithm from being used in TLS (Transport Layer Security) connections.

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 ...

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 ...

There’s an old saying in the security community: Attacks always get better. The latest case where that holds true is for the aging RC4 cipher that’s still widely used to encrypt communications on the ...