The RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4) algorithm was designed in 1987 by renowned cryptographer Ron Rivest and remained a trade secret until 1994, when it was leaked on the Internet.

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 ...

Michichael noted that the algorithm in question is actually RC4-HMAC-MD5, which was deprecated in 2006 and is disabled by default on most modern operating systems.

Sounds like he screwed up the encryption algorithm, but in such a way that its reversable by his decrypt View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif ...

He adds that the RC4 encryption algorithm is not a Federal Information Processing (FIPS) standard and probably won’t ever be because network professionals see RC4 as rather weak in terms of ...