Hi!<br><br>First some introduction. There is a course at my university called Cryptography and Network security that runs bi-annualy and usually contains a challenge to crack some cipher using ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

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.

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 ...

In April, Microsoft plans to start the next phase in the process of phasing out insecure RC4 encryption from Kerberos. Authentication in Active Directory is intended to become significantly more ...

About time: Microsoft introduced support for the RC4 stream cipher in Windows 2000 as the default authentication algorithm for the Active Directory services. The system has been insecure for even ...