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 ...

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Microsoft is officially moving to shut the door on RC4 - a legacy cryptographic cipher that has quietly persisted inside Windows authentication environments for decades - and forcing organizations to ...

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.

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.

Although RC4 encryption should already be a thing of the past, it is still used sporadically today. Microsoft has now announced that it will remove Rivest Cipher 4 from Kerberos. This is intended to ...