So long, RC4, and thanks for all the fish
by from Techreport on (#KFQ1)
It's official. Support for RC4, a stream cipher used by browsers for securing connections (among other things), will be dropped sometime in early 2016 by Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft. The cipher is vulnerable to several concerning attacks, and its design dates from 1987.
RC4's deprecation isn't entirely unexpected. The Internet Engineering Task Force had already published an RFC document in February of this year prohibiting the use of ...