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 ...

A new attack on RC4 by Daniel J. Bernstein allows an attacker to decrypt a user’s secure session with a TLS-enabled site.

Researchers have found and reported multiple weaknesses in RC4 over the years, but for the most part those attacks have remained theoretical or have not applied to RC4 as used in SSL/TLS.

Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla all made the same announcement today: They will drop support for the RC4 cipher in their respective browsers. Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer, and Firefox will all ...

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.