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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The RC4 key size can range from 8 to 2048 bits. Note: The term cipher means encryption algorithm. DES An acronym for Data Encryption Standard, DES was developed by IBM. The algorithm expands a single ...

A 2011 attack known as BEAST—short for Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS —targets an encryption mode known as CBC, or cipher block chaining, which is present in most algorithms except for RC4.

The Mozilla Foundation will join fellow browser makers Microsoft and Google to disable the weak RC4 cipher in the upcoming 4.4 version of its Firefox web browser.

options netencryptalgorithm=rc4; options comamid=tcp; libname sasdata 'edc.prog2.sasdata' server=rmthost.share1; The NETENCRYPTALGORITHM= option specifies that the RC4 algorithm be used for encryption ...

Sounds like he screwed up the encryption algorithm, but in such a way that its reversable by his decrypt View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif ...