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.

Security researchers have discovered weaknesses that could be exploited to crack some types of encrypted Web communications. The flaw exists in the RC4 encryption algorithm that's often used to help ...

SSL/TLS encryption once again is being haunted by an outdated and weak feature long past its prime: a newly discovered attack exploits a weakness in the older, less secure RC4 encryption algorithm ...

In the last section we discussed the potential for optimizing algorithms, which can be done, but sometimes may not result in the type of performance required. As was mentioned, you can always move the ...

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 ...

Yahoo has turned on HTTPS by default for its web-based email service, but the deployment is inconsistent across the board and experts are critical of its use of weak standards and the lack of Perfect ...

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 ...